Finuala Dowling
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| birth_date = June 1962
| birth_place = Cape Town, South Africa
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| occupation = Poet, Writer, Lecturer, Editor
| nationality = South African
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Finuala Dowling (born June 1962) is a South African poet and writer.{{Cite web|title=NB Publishers {{!}} Authors|url=https://www.nb.co.za/en/authors?authorId=104|access-date=2020-12-07|website=www.nb.co.za}}{{Cite news|last=Rumens|first=Carol|date=2019-05-13|title=Poem of the week: Catch of the Day by Finuala Dowling|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/may/13/poem-of-the-week-catch-of-the-day-by-finuala-dowling|access-date=2020-12-07|issn=0261-3077}}
Biography
The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Town (UCT), and a D.Litt. from the University of South Africa (UNISA), where she lectured in English for eight years.{{Cite web|title=Finuala Dowling|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K7zRD1cAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2020-12-07|website=scholar.google.com|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417094345/https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K7zRD1cAAAAJ&hl=en|url-status=dead}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2012/10/19/the-2012-m-net-literary-awards-winners/ |title=The 2012 M-Net Literary Awards Winners |work=Books LIVE |author=Carolyn |date=19 October 2012 |accessdate=19 October 2012}}
With Tessa and Cara Dowling she has set up an entertainment company, Dowling Sisters Productions.
Family
Dowling lives in Kalk Bay, Cape Town with her daughter Beatrice, who also writes poetry.{{Cite web|title=This month, Kwela celebrates poet and novelist Finuala Dowling|url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2019-10-02-this-month-kwela-celebrates-poet-and-novelist-finuala-dowling/|access-date=2020-12-07|website=TimesLIVE|language=en-ZA}}
Publications
=Poetry=
- I Flying, Carapace (2002){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiwgAQAAIAAJ |title=I Flying |date=2002 |publisher=Carapace Poets |isbn=978-1-874923-66-4 |language=en}}
- Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe, Penguin (2006){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBsrAQAAIAAJ |title=Doo-wop Girls of the Universe |date=2006 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-302504-7 |language=en}}
- Notes from the Dementia Ward, Kwela Books/Snailpress (2008){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oywgAQAAIAAJ |title=Notes from the Dementia Ward |date=2008 |publisher=Kwela Books in collaboration with Snailpress |isbn=978-0-7957-0274-7 |language=en}}
- Pretend You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books (2018){{Cite web|title=Finuala Dowling|url=https://karinamagdalena.com/tag/finuala-dowling/|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Karina Magdalena|language=en}}
=Novels=
- What Poets Need, Penguin (2005){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRsrAQAAIAAJ |title=What Poets Need |date=2005 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-302468-2 |language=en}}
- Flyleaf, Penguin (2007){{Cite web |title=Flyleaf |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3296469-flyleaf |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
- Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart, Kwela Books (2011){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TsswywEACAAJ |title=Homemaking for the Down-at-heart |date=2019 |publisher=Kwela Books |isbn=978-0-7957-0932-6 |language=en}}
- The Fetch, Kwela Books (2015){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rTHsgEACAAJ |title=The Fetch |date=2015 |publisher=Kwela Books |isbn=978-0-7957-0717-9 |language=en}}
- Okay, Okay, Okay, Kwela Books (2019){{Cite book |last=Dowling |first=Finuala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkgPywEACAAJ |title=Okay, Okay, Okay |date=2019 |publisher=Kwela Books |isbn=978-0-7957-0948-7 |language=en}}
- The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers (2022){{cite book |last1=Dowling |first1=Finuala |title=The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers |date=2022 |publisher=Kwela Books |isbn=9780795709630}} (Featuring the "female fakir" Koringa){{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=Laurence |title=Koringa and the Professor: beating some 'fictive' bounds in Finuala Dowling's The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers |journal=ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews |date=11 May 2023 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1080/0895769X.2023.2210168}}
=Appearances in anthologies=
- Portraits of African Writers, ed. George Hallett, Wits University Press (2006)
- Lovely Beyond Any Singing: Landscape in South African Literature, Helen Moffett, Double Storey (2006)
Awards
- Ingrid Jonker Prize for I Flying (2004)
- Sanlam Award for Poetry for Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe (2006){{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
- Olive Schreiner Prize for Notes from the Dementia Ward (2010)[http://www.nb.co.za/Authors/5613 "Finuala Dowling"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107132220/http://www.nb.co.za/Authors/5613 |date=7 November 2019 }}, nb.
- M-Net Literary Award (English category) for Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart (2012)
- Herman Charles Bosman Award for The Fetch
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://finualadowling.com}}
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Category:South African women poets
Category:21st-century South African poets
Category:21st-century South African women writers
Category:Writers from Cape Town
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