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Finuala Dow
, Biography of Finuala Dowling
• She is a South African poet, author and lecturer.
• Born in Cape Town in 1962 and is the seventh of eight children.
• 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.
• Dowling lives in Muizenberg, Cape Town with her daughter.
This poem was written when Finuala lived in Kalk Bay.
• 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.
• With her sisters, Tessa and Cara Dowling, she has set up an
entertainment company, Dowling Sisters Productions.
Finuala Dow
, Biography of Finuala Dowling
• She is a South African poet, author and lecturer.
• Born in Cape Town in 1962 and is the seventh of eight children.
• 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.
• Dowling lives in Muizenberg, Cape Town with her daughter.
This poem was written when Finuala lived in Kalk Bay.
• 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.
• With her sisters, Tessa and Cara Dowling, she has set up an
entertainment company, Dowling Sisters Productions.
