Stolen

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  • Mary O'Donnell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v20i1.3090

Biografia autore

  • Mary O'Donnell
    Mary O’Donnell, (born 1954) is an award-winning and best-selling novelist and poet, a journalist, broadcaster and teacher. She has written and published four novels, including The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie, seven collections of poetry (including Those April FeversArc UK 2015), two volumes of short stories and radio broadcasts and won several awards for her writing in both fiction and poetry. In 2007 she was writer-in-residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. Her work has been translated into Hungarian, for which she was co-recipient of the 2012 Irodalmi Jelen Award for Translation. The recently published work Giving Shape to the Moment: the Art of Mary O'Donnell, Poet, Novelist & Short-story Writer includes a selection of essays responding to her writing in each genre, an interview from Irish academic Dr Anne Fogarty, and offers a powerful overview of her contribution to Irish letters. O'Donnell has taught creative writing at Maynooth University, was a mentor on the Carlow University Pittsburgh MFA in Creative Writing programme for eleven years, and also contributed on the faculty of the University of Iowa's summer writing programme at Trinity College, Dublin for three years. Today, she teaches Poetry on Galway University's MA in Creative Writing. She is a member of the Irish Writers' Union, a Board Member of the Irish Writers Centre, is a member of Aosdána and served for three years on Maynooth University's Governing Authority, representing arts and culture.

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2018-09-23

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The Writer

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