“I Have Always Been a Writer”: An Interview with Evelyn Conlon

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  • Melania Terrazas Gallego Departamento de Filologías Modernas. Universidad de La Rioja

Abstract

Interview

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Author Biography

Melania Terrazas Gallego, Departamento de Filologías Modernas. Universidad de La Rioja

Melania Terrazas is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and International Mobility Coordinator in the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja (Spain). She is the author of Relational Structures in Wyndham Lewis’s Fiction: Complexity and Value (Lincom Europa, 2005) and helped set up the Wyndham Lewis Project website. She has published on Applied Linguistics (vocabulary knowledge and motivation) and extensively on a number of British, American and Irish authors. She was previously Editor of the Journal of English Studies and is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for Irish Studies). She is currently co-editing a collection of essays on satire.

References

Conlon, Evelyn. 1987. My Head is Opening. Dublin: Attic Press.

—. 1989. Stars in the Daytime. Dublin: Attic Press.

—. 1993. Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.

—. 1998. A Glassful of Letters. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.

—. 2000. Telling: New and Selected Stories. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.

—. 2003. Skin of Dreams. Brandon Mount Eagle.

—. 2013. Not the Same Sky. A Novel. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.

Devlin-Glass, Frances. 2013. “Interview with Evelyn Conlon: Australia’s Newest Irish Novelist.” Tinteán Online Magazine, September, 12 [Accessed online on January 6, 2016].

Kildea, Jeff. 2013. Not the Same Sky, Sydney launch address at Parliament Buildings delivered on 24 August. Evelyn Conlon Webpage [Accessed online on January 6, 2016].

Klaassen, Nic. 2013. “Review of Not the Same Sky: A Story of Irish Famine Girls Brought to Australia.” South Australian History Website [Accessed online on January 6, 2016].

McLean, Janet, ed. 2014. Lines of Vision. Irish Writers on Art. London: Thames and Hudson.

Pelan, Rebecca. 2000. “Interview with Evelyn Conlon.” Hecate 26 (1): 66- 67.

—. “Review of Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky.” The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 13: 193.

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Published

2017-06-23

How to Cite

Gallego, M. T. (2017). “I Have Always Been a Writer”: An Interview with Evelyn Conlon. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 39(1), 207–219. Retrieved from https://atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/316

Issue

2017: Vol. 39, Num. 1

Section

Interviews

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