Finuala Dowling

June, 1962

Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa

The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an Master of Arts in English from the University of Cape Town before lecturing in English at the University of South Africa for eight years. Finuala has a Master of Arts from UCT and a Doctor of Literature from University of South Africa. With Tessa and Cara Dowling she has set up an entertainment company, Dowling Sisters Productions. Poetry I Flying, Carapace (2002) To The Doctor Who Treated The Raped Baby And Who Felt Such Despair, Poetry International (2004) Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe, Penguin (2006).

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The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an Master of Arts in English from the University of Cape Town before lecturing in English at the University of South Africa for eight years. Finuala has a Master of Arts from UCT and a Doctor of Literature from University of South Africa. With Tessa and Cara Dowling she has set up an entertainment company, Dowling Sisters Productions. Poetry

I Flying, Carapace (2002)

To The Doctor Who Treated The Raped Baby And Who Felt Such Despair, Poetry International (2004)

Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe, Penguin (2006).

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Her first poetry anthology, I Flying, was published in 2002 and won the Ingrid Jonker Prize. She has also won the Sanlam Award for Poetry and the Olive Schreiner Prize. She won the 2012 M-Net Literary Award (English category) for Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart.

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June, 1962

Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
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Ingrid Jonker Prize; M-Net Literary award; Olive Schreiner Prize

The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a literary prize for the best debut work of Afrikaans or English poetry.; The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa.

The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a literary prize for the best debut work of Afrikaans or English poetry.; The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa.

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Ingrid Jonker Prize; M-Net Literary award; Olive Schreiner Prize