Leland Bardwell

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Leland Bardwell , birth name Leland Hone (born February 25, 1922 in Chennai , formerly Madras , India , † June 28, 2016 in Sligo ), was a contemporary Irish writer.

Life

The daughter of Irish Protestants was born in India in 1922, but grew up in Leixlip in County Kildare, Ireland since 1924 . Under the constant hostile gaze of her mother and the relegation behind her older siblings Noll and Paloma, the intimidated girl began to rebel at a young age. Together with her sister, she was first taught by an impoverished cousin, while the brother attended boarding school. Leland wandered the fields with her dogs, sang songs, wrote poems and stole money from his father to smoke. When her sister Paloma was finally allowed to go to regular school, Leland was sent to a family to attend home schooling with their daughter. She was a good student who liked to write, but repeatedly misbehaved and was therefore sent home. This vagabond existence quickly became the pattern of their entire existence. After a few more school years, u. a. at the Alexandra School in Dublin, and a number of jobs, almost all of which had something to do with horses, she threw herself headlong into a hopeless liaison with an older cousin, who went to England , however , and left her in great emotional confusion. A little later she became pregnant by a stranger and fled to England to hide this. In Birmingham , during the final year of the war, she found a job in an aircraft factory. During this terrible time of isolation, she finally took heart, put the baby up for adoption and went to London with the resolve to start a new life there. She worked for the Chinese Embassy for a while and was a visiting student at London University. In 1948 she married Michael Bardwell , with whom she had twins Billy and Anna, but divorced five years later in order to live with his brother Brian, to whom they gave birth to their daughter Jackie. After a few more affairs, she had three more sons from 1959 in her second marriage to Finton McLachlan . Her life was marked by war and poverty, humiliation and loneliness, brutality, chaos and broken hearts - but also by unexpected literary success, the wild Parisian years, life in the bohemian Soho and interesting artist friendships such as with the writers Patrick Kavanagh , George Barker, and John Jordan .

Work and effect

Leland Bardwell published five novels, her last, Mother to a Stranger , became a bestseller in Germany . The short story collection Different Kinds of Love and the novel The House have also been published in Germany . Countless of her radio plays have been broadcast on Irish radio; she also published four works for the stage and five volumes of poetry. In 1993 Bardwell received the Martin Toonder Award for Literature. She was co-editor of the established literary magazine Cyphers and a member of the Aosdána artists' association . Most recently she lived in County Sligo, Ireland .

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 1972.
  • Open ended prescription. Peaock Theater, Dublin 1979.
  • No regret: The Life of Edith Piaf. Olympia Theater, Dublin 1985.
  • Jocasta. Hawk's Well Theater Company, Sligo 2000.
  • Radio plays for RTÉ and BBC

Dependent publications

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

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/24/leland-bardwell-obituary
  2. ↑ Mother of a Stranger . CH Beck, 2004; TB: Diana, 2005
  3. ↑ Time drives away love . Ullstein, 1998
  4. ↑ The house . Parthas, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Bardwell, Leland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hone, Leland (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chennai
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2016
Place of death Sligo