Lynn Buckle is an Irish writer. She is deaf, and her second novel, What Willow Says, won the Barbellion Prize for writers living with chronic illness or disability.[1] She is the founder of the Irish Climate Writing Group.
Lynn Buckle | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick Camberwell College of Art Maynooth University |
| Occupation | Novelist |
In February 2022 she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.[2]
Early life
editBuckle was born in Bristol, England, and studied at the University of Warwick, Camberwell School of Art and NUI Maynooth.[3] She moved to Ireland in around 1990.[4]
Career
editBuckle's first published novel was The Groundsmen in 2018.[5] After writing it she offered it to several publishers before it was accepted by époque press, which she describes as "a fairly new UK indie company based in Cheltenham".[4]
Her second novel, What Willow Says, also published by époque,[6] won the 2022 Barbellion Prize for writers who live with chronic illness or a disability. It has been described as "a meditation on nature and deafness."[2]
She lost her hearing gradually[7] and now hears "my versions of sounds, delivered through my technology".[7]
In 2021 she was one of five writers to be virtual writers-in-residence in Norwich, England, during the COVID-19 pandemic, under the banner "Imagining the City".[8] During the project she wrote a short story "Ailbhe’s Tale" which "draws inspiration from Norwich and Dublin's shared shared histories of hidden waterways through the lens of gender, power, and place."[9] and was later published as part of Arachne Press's anthology What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective.[3]
Buckle is increasingly addressing the topic of climate and is the founder of the Irish Writers Climate Group at the Irish Writer's Centre.[7]
Selected publications
edit- Buckle, Lynn (2018). The Groundsmen. époque Press. ISBN 978-1999896027.
- Buckle, Lynn (2022). What Willow Says. époque Press. ISBN 978-1838059286.
- Buckle, Lynn (2021). "Ailbhe's Tale". In Kelly, Lisa; Stone, Sophie (eds.). What Meets the Eye: a Deaf Perspective. Arachne Press. ISBN 9781913665487.
References
edit- ^ Bayley, Sian (12 February 2022). "Buckle wins Barbellion Prize for 'powerful' novel What Willow Says". The Bookseller. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ a b "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful on stage, Barbellion prize-winning author Lynn Buckle, singer-conductor Barbara Hannigan". BBC. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Lynn Buckle". Arachne Press. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ a b "The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle". Writing.ie. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
has spent the last thirty years in Ireland
- ^ "Rathangan's Lynn Buckle launches debut novel". www.leinsterleader.ie. 6 October 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "What Willow Says". époque press. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Buckle, Lynn (25 June 2021). "The Last Sounds: how writing my novel helped me accept my own deafness". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "Imagining The City: Five writers, one month". National Centre for Writing. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "Ailbhe's Tale by Lynn Buckle". National Centre for Writing. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
External links
edit- Official website
- Lynn Buckle page on époque press website including video clips of Buckle reading from her two novels
- Wells, Zoë (11 July 2021). "An Interview with Lynn Buckle Author of "What Willow Says"". Bandit Fiction.
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