Victoria White

Victoria
White

Years: 2022

Victoria White is a native Dubliner and a graduate, with an M. Litt in English Literature, of Trinity College, Dublin.  Following a period teaching English at the University of Pavia, Italy and elsewhere, she has worked in Dublin as a writer and journalist, working first as a theatre critic and guest editor of Theatre Ireland magazine and as a features writer and subsequently as Arts Editor of The Irish Times. She has published short stories, a polemic on motherhood in Ireland (Mother Ireland, 2010) and worked most recently as an opinion columnist for the Irish Examiner and The Herald which garnered her a nomination as Popular Columnist of the Year.

Victoria White is a native Dubliner and a graduate, with an M. Litt in English Literature, of Trinity College, Dublin.  Following a period teaching English at the University of Pavia, Italy and elsewhere, she has worked in Dublin as a writer and journalist, working first as a theatre critic and guest editor of Theatre Ireland magazine and as a features writer and subsequently as Arts Editor of The Irish Times. She has published short stories, a polemic on motherhood in Ireland (Mother Ireland, 2010) and worked most recently as an opinion columnist for the Irish Examiner and The Herald which garnered her a nomination as Popular Columnist of the Year.

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