Clare Boylan

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Clare Boylan
An image of Clare Boylan. A white woman with blue eyes and blonde hair. Wearing red clothes and a necklace.
Born21 April 1948
Dublin, Ireland
Died16 May 2006(2006-05-16) (aged 58)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationAuthor, journalist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIrish
Notable awardsSpirit of Life Award
Benson & Hedges Journalist of the Year 1974
SpouseAlan Wilkes

Clare Boylan (21 April 1948 – 16 May 2006) was an Irish author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media.

Life and career

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on 21 April 1948, to Patrick and Evelyn Boylan (née Selby),[1][2] Boylan began her career as a journalist at the now defunct Irish Press.[1][3] In 1974, she won the Journalist of the Year award when working in the city for the Evening Press.[2][3]There she met her husband, fellow journalist Alan Wilkes.[2] From 1981, Boylan edited the glossy magazine Image,[3] before largely giving up journalism to focus on a career as an author in 1984.[1][2]

Her novels are Holy Pictures (1983),[4] Last Resorts (1984), Black Baby (1988),[5] Home Rule (1992), Beloved Stranger (1999), Room for a Single Lady (1997) – which won the Spirit of Light Award[2] and was optioned for a film – and Emma Brown (2003).[6][7] The latter work is a continuation of a 20-page fragment written by Charlotte Brontë before her death.[1][6][8]

Boylan's short stories are collected in A Nail on the Head (1983), Concerning Virgins (1990) and That Bad Woman (1995).[7] The film Making Waves, based on her short story "Some Ladies on a Tour", was nominated for an Oscar in 1988.

Her non-fiction includes The Agony and the Ego (1994) and The Literary Companion to Cats (1994).[6][7] She wrote introductions to the novels of Kate O'Brien and Molly Keane and adapted Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour as the classic serial for BBC Radio 4 (2004).[6][7] Boylan's work has been translated as far afield as Russia and Hong Kong.[7]

Many of her writings were inspired by feminist thinking.[1][2][3] She said of this theme that "by definition, I am a woman writer because the things that interest me are the things that are most interesting to women".[3] Her works gained her membership to Aosdána.[2][6][7]

In later life, she lived in County Wicklow[2][7] with her husband Alan Wilkes.[1][6] She died in Dublin after a lengthy struggle with ovarian cancer, aged 58, on 16 May 2006.[1][6]

References

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  4. ^ O'Connor, M. (2017), "Green Fields and Blue Roads: The Melancholy of the Girl Walker in Irish Women's Fiction", Critical Survey, 29(1), pp. 90–104. doi:10.3167/cs.2017.290106.
  5. ^ O'Connor, M. (2020), "Alice's garden: Imagining agency in the natural world in Clare Boylan’s Black Baby", Estudios Irlandeses, pp. 42–52. doi: 10.24162/EI2020-9752.
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