Leland Bardwell

Leland Bardwell ( * 1922 in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, as Leland Hone ) is a contemporary Irish writer.

Life

The daughter of Irish Protestants was born in 1922 in India, but grew from 1924 in Leixlip in County Kildare. Under constant hostile gaze of her mother and the reset behind their older siblings Noll and Paloma, the frightened girl began to rebel at a young age. Together with her sister she was initially taught by an impoverished cousin, while his brother attended boarding school. Leland wandered with their dogs through the fields, sang songs, wrote poems and stole his father money to smoke. Finally, when her sister Paloma was allowed to go to a regular school, Leland was sent to a family to participate with their daughter at home schooling. She was a good student who enjoyed writing, but danebenbenahm repeatedly and was therefore sent home. Quick this vagabond existence became the pattern of their entire existence. After a few more years of school, among other things, on the Dublin Alexandra School, and a number of jobs that had almost all have something to do with horses, they plunged headlong into a hopeless affair with an older cousin, who, however, went to England and they in great emotional turmoil left behind. A little later she became pregnant by an unknown assailant and fled to England in order to conceal this. In Birmingham they took place in the last year of the war a job in an airplane factory. In this terrible time of isolation she finally took heart, gave the baby up for adoption and went with the firm intention to London, there to begin a new life. She worked for a time for the Chinese Embassy and was an auditor at London University. In 1948 she married Michael Bardwell, with whom she had the twins Billy and Anna, however, had divorced five years it again to live with his brother Brian, whom she gave birth to their daughter Jackie. After a few more affairs she was in second marriage with Finton McLachlan from 1959 three more sons. Your life is shaped by war and poverty, humiliation and loneliness, brutality, chaos and broken hearts - but also of unverhofftem literary success from the wild years in Paris, living in bohemian Soho and interesting friendships with artists such as the writers Patrick Kavanagh, George Barker and John Jordan.

Work and impact

Leland Bardwell published five novels, her last, "Mother to a Stranger " (Mother of a stranger, CH Beck 2004 TB Diana 2005), was in Germany a bestseller. Also published in Germany are the short- story collection "Different Kinds of Love" (time distributes love, Ullsteinhaus 1998) and the novel "The House " ( The house, Partha 2007). Countless their radio plays radio were broadcast in Irish; also published four of her stage works and five books of poetry. In 1993, the Martin Bardwell Toonder Award for Literature. She is co-editor of the established literary magazine Cyphers, a member of the Artists' Association Aosdána and now lives in County Sligo.

Original editions

Poetry

  • The Mad Cyclist. New Writers' Press, 1970.
  • The Fly and the Bed Bug. Beaver Row Press, 1984.
  • Dostoevsky 's Grave: Selected Poems. Dedalus Press, 1991.
  • The White Beach: New and Selected Poems, 1960-1998. Salmon Publishing, 1998.
  • The Noise of Masonry Settling. Dedalus Press, 2005.

Novels

  • Girl on a Bicycle. Irish Writers Co-operative, 1977.
  • That London winter. Co -op Books, 1981.
  • The House. Brandon, 1984.
  • There We Have Been. Attic Press, 1989.
  • Mother to a Stranger. Blackstaff Press, 2002.

Short story collection

  • Different Kinds of Love. Attic Press, 1987.

Autobiography

  • A Restless Life. Liberties Press, 2008.

Dramas

  • Thursday. Trinity College, Dublin in 1972.
  • Radio plays for RTE and BBC

Dependent Publications

  • Sninda. In: Ms. Muffet and Others: A Funny, Sassy, Heretical Collection of Feminist Fairy Tales. Attic Press, 1986.
  • Leland Bardwell et al. (Ed.): The Anthology. Modern Irish Fiction. Co -op Books, 1982.
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