Dolores Walshe (born 1949), is an Irish short story writer, novelist
and playwright.Dolores Walshe was born in Dublin and grew up in the
Liberties in the inner city. She graduated with a degree in Arts from
University College Dublin and then got a Higher Diploma from Trinity
College, Dublin.She has won grants, bursaries and awards for her
story- and play-writing. Walshe was awarded a second Arts Council
Bursary in Literature 2014. She has won a number of fiction awards
including the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in 2012 and the James
Joyce Jerusalem Bloomsday Award. She has come 2nd in the Francis
MacManus Award twice. In 2017 she won the Berlin Writing Prize. Walshe
has also won a number of awards as a playwright, such as the Listowel
Writers’ Week Play Award and Irish Stage and Screen Award and in
1987 she won the OZ Whitehead/Society of Irish Playwrights/PEN
Playwriting Literary Prize. Walshe was also winner of the 1991 Irish
Stage and Screen Playwriting Competition.Walshe's plays have been
produced by The Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Andrew’s Lane
Theatre in Dublin, and she has been published by Carysfort Press, UCD,
and Syracuse University, New York.
and playwright.Dolores Walshe was born in Dublin and grew up in the
Liberties in the inner city. She graduated with a degree in Arts from
University College Dublin and then got a Higher Diploma from Trinity
College, Dublin.She has won grants, bursaries and awards for her
story- and play-writing. Walshe was awarded a second Arts Council
Bursary in Literature 2014. She has won a number of fiction awards
including the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in 2012 and the James
Joyce Jerusalem Bloomsday Award. She has come 2nd in the Francis
MacManus Award twice. In 2017 she won the Berlin Writing Prize. Walshe
has also won a number of awards as a playwright, such as the Listowel
Writers’ Week Play Award and Irish Stage and Screen Award and in
1987 she won the OZ Whitehead/Society of Irish Playwrights/PEN
Playwriting Literary Prize. Walshe was also winner of the 1991 Irish
Stage and Screen Playwriting Competition.Walshe's plays have been
produced by The Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Andrew’s Lane
Theatre in Dublin, and she has been published by Carysfort Press, UCD,
and Syracuse University, New York.
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