Interview Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Interview with the Irish author and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa on the occasion of her latest novel, Aldus de doden. Doireann Ní Ghríofa gained recognition in the Netherlands with her prose debut Een geest in de keel (2021), for which she was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize in 2022. Aldus de doden is her long-awaited second novel and is set in a former psychiatric women's institution. In Aldus de doden, Ní Ghríofa intertwines the past and present—of the women who lived in the institution and the life of the modern narrator—in a mixture of prose, poetry, and archival material.