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"Before I could read, I loved books and liked to collect piles of them " Michelle McGrane in conversation with Finuala Dowling
Born in Cape Town in , Finuala Dowling was the seventh of eight children of radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling. She has lectured at Unisa and worked as a freelance educational materials developer, writer and lecturer. Her short stories have been broadcast on radio and have appeared in several anthologies, winning runner-up prizes in the Cosmopolitan and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association competitions. She won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for her first volume of poetry, I Flying, and was co-winner of the Sanlam Award for poetry in for her collection entitled Doo-wah Girl of the Universe. In her first novel, What Poets Need, was published by Penguin. Finuala lives in Kalk Bay with her family.
What Poets Need
Author: Finuala Dowling
Publisher: The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd
ISBN: X
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Format: Softcover
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Michelle McGrane: Finuala � it's a beautiful, unusual name. Where does it come from?
Finuala Dowling: My name is Irish. It means "white shoulder" and has something to do with a myth involving a swan. Though my father wasn't born in Ireland, he ident
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Finuala Dowling
Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant:Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Finuala Dowling’s first poetry collection, I FLYING, won South Africa’s prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize. Her second collection, DOO-WOP GIRLS OF THE UNIVERSE was joint winner of the Sanlam Prize for poetry, and her third, NOTES FROM THE DEMENTIA WARD, won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in several anthologies. She has also written plays and won the Spier/PANSA Audience Award. She is a brilliant performer and has read at the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK and at all South Africa’s major literary festivals.
Her first novel was WHAT POETS NEED, followed by FLYLEAF. HOME-MAKING FOR THE DOWN-AT-HEART won the M-Net Prize and was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize in the same year. Her novel THE FETCH won the Herman Charles Bosman prize for English fiction. Her novel OKAY OKAY OKAY was published in South Africa by Kwela in , with her latest novel, THE MAN WHO LOVED CROCODILE TAMERS, following in
She has an M.A. from the University of Cape Town and a et Phil. from the University of South Africa. Formerly an English lecturer, she is now a full-time writer and freelance poetry teacher. She lives in Kalk Bay, Cape Tow
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