Finuala Dowling (born June 1962) is a South African poet and writer.[1][2]
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.[1][3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
^Dowling, Finuala (2022). The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers. Kwela Books.
ISBN9780795709630.
^Wright, Laurence (11 May 2023). "Koringa and the Professor: beating some 'fictive' bounds in Finuala Dowling's The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: 1–9.
doi:
10.1080/0895769X.2023.2210168.