Kerri ni Dochartaigh于1983年出生在爱尔兰北部和南部边界的德里-伦敦德里。她在都柏林三一学院读过英国文学和古典文明,并在爱丁堡接受过华尔道夫教师的培训。她曾在爱丁堡和布里斯托尔任教,30岁出头回到爱尔兰。她为《爱尔兰时报》、《都柏林书评》、《被河抓住》等杂志撰写有关自然、文学和地点的文章。她现在住在爱尔兰市中心的一间铁路小屋里。
Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right side.
One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.
In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in.
Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was.
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