Leland Bardwell
Leland Bardwell was born in India of Irish parents in 1928 and was brought to Ireland at the age of two.
Her collections of poetry are The Mad Cyclist (Dublin, New Writers’ Press, 1970); The Fly and the Bedbug (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1984);
Dostoevsky’s Grave, New and Selected Poems (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1991); The White Beach, New & Selected Poems 1960-1988 (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1998); and The Noise of Masonry Settling (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2006).
Her novels are Girl on a Bicycle (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1977); That London Winter (Co-Op Books, 1981); The House (Kerry, Brandon, 1984); There We Have Been (Dublin, Attic Press, 1989); and Mother to a Stranger (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 2002).
A volume of short stories, Different Kinds of Love (Attic Press, 1994) has been translated into German as Zeit vertreibt Liebe.
Her plays include Thursday, and Open Ended Prescription.
She has also broadcast radio plays, including The Revenge of Constance, and Just Another Killing. Her musical, Edith Piaf, toured Ireland.
Her autobiography is A Restless Life (Dublin, Liberties Press, 2008)
She is a member of Aosdána, and lives in Co Sligo.
