Paula Meehan
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University, in the U.S. She has received many awards including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the PPI Award for Radio Drama.
Poetry: Return and No Blame, Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1984, Reading the Sky, Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1986, The Man Who was Marked by Winter, The Gallery Press, 1991, Pillow Talk, The Gallery Press, 1994, Mysteries of the Home, Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996, Dharmakaya, Carcanet, Manchester, 2000 and Six Sycamores, Crowquill Press, Belfast, 2004.
Plays: Kirkle, 1995, and The Voyage, 1997, both for Team Theatre Company. Mrs Sweeney, Rough Magic Theatre Company, 1997, New Island Books, 1999. Cell, Calypso Theatre Company, 1999, New Island Books, 2000. Janey Mac is going to die, aka Music for Dogs, RTE Radio 1, 2001. Wuthering Heights, adaptation of the novel, RTÉ Radio 1, 2003. The Wolf of Winter, a fairytale, 2003/4, The National Theatre Company at the Peacock. The Lover, RTÉ Radio 1, 2005. Threehander RTÉ Radio 1 October 2005.
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