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Aoife Dooley is an award winning illustrator author and comedian. She is also a graphic designer and public speaker. Aoife is known best for her Your One Nikita series which follows the life of a 22 year old woman and her friends from Coolock. She published two books with Gill books based on Nikita in 2016 and 2017 'How To Be Massive’ and 'How To Deal With Poxes'. In 2018 Your One Nikita came to screens in an animated tv series for the RTE Player animated and produced by Digital Beast.

She has spoken at a number of events including Offset, Zeminar, Creative Events and more. She was a regular panellist on the Elaine show on Virgin Media and has experience with both live tv and radio. Aoife has also performed at festivals such as Vodafone Comedy Festival, Body & Soul, Electric Picnic and more.

In 2018 Aoife was diagnosed as Autistic at the age of 27. Since, she has spoken about her own experiences at many events and shared how a diagnosis helped her to truly begin to understand herself.

Aoife published her first Children’s book in 2019 123 Ireland with Little Island followed by ABC Ireland in 2022.

In 2020 Scholastic UK acquired world rights to Frankie's World, a graphic novel based on Aoife’s real-life experiences of autism. It was published January 2022 and with praise from the guardian, the Irish times amongst others. It has since been translated into 6 languages. Frankie’s World is also published by Graphix books in the US. The sequel ‘Finding my Voice’ came out in 2023.

Awards:

2017 - U Magazines 30 under 30 best comedian

2019 - An Post Book Awards Children’s book of the year (Jr) - 123 Ireland!

2023 - Our Best Book Award - Frankie’s World

2023 - The Week Junior illustrated children’s book of the year - Frankie’s World


‘Razor-sharp observational humour … has the zeitgeisty quotability of a contemporary Roddy Doyle.’  The Irish Times

‘How to Be Massive is funny, affectionate and very, very sharp. Almost social history and always great fun’ Roddy Doyle 

‘Readers who like quirky, misfit heroes will snap up Dooley’s warm, funny and original graphic novel, drawing on her own experience of growing up autistic.’  The Guardian 

"I loved Frankie's story and could really identify with her character. This is such an amazing graphic novel that represents neurodiversity really realistically." Libby Scott