Clare Boylan
Clare Boylan was born in Dublin in 1948.
She published four novels: Holy Pictures (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1993/ New York, Simon and Schuster 1983); Last Resorts (Hamish Hamilton, 1984 /Simon and Schuster, 1986); Black Baby (Hamish Hamilton, 1988 / New York, Doubleday 1989);
Home Rule (Hamish Hamilton 1992).
Her widely anthologised stories have been collected as
A Nail on the Head (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1983/ New York, Penguin 1985);
Concerning Virgins (Hamish Hamilton, 1989); and That Bad Woman (London, Little Brown, 1995).
Her non-fiction includes, as editor, The Agony and the Ego (London, Penguin 1993 / New York, Penguin 1994); and The Literary Companion to Cats (London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1994).
The film Making Waves, based on her short story Some Ladies on a Tour, was nominated for an Oscar in 1988 in the best short film category.
Amongst her other honours was the Spirit of Life award for fiction in Dublin in 1997. A member of Aosdána, she lived in Co Wicklow.
She died on May 16, 2006
