Enda Wyley is an Irish writer of poetry and children's literature.

Life

Enda Wyley was born in

Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire ( , ) is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The town was built up alongside a small existing settlement following 1816 legislation th ...

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in 1966 and lives in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

. She was awarded a B.Ed. by the

Marino Institute of Education Marino Institute of Education (Irish language, Irish: ), abbreviated as Marino Institute or MIE, is an Irish College of Education, an associated College of Trinity College Dublin. It is located on Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9. Its degrees and dip ...

, Dublin and then worked for twenty years as a primary school teacher. She obtained an M.A in creative writing from

Lancaster University Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...

. She is married to

Peter Sirr Peter Sirr (born 1960) is an Irish poet, born in Waterford, Ireland. He lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator. Life Peter Sirr was born in Waterford in 1960, before moving to Dublin with his family as a child. Si ...

who is also a poet and they have one daughter.

Work

She writes poetry and children's literature. She has been the Poet-at-Work in the Coombe Maternity Hospital, Dublin and Writer in Residence at the Marino Institute.

Works

Poetry

* ''Eating Baby Jesus'' (Dedalus Press, 1993) * ''Socrates in the Garden'' (Dedalus Press, 1998) * ''Poems for Breakfast'' (Dedalus Press, 2004) * ''To Wake to This'' (Dedalus Press, 2009) * ''Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems'' (Dedalus Press, 2014) * ''The Painter on his Bike'' (Dedalus Press, 2019).

Children's literature

* ''Boo and Bear'' (O'Brien Press, 2003) * ''The Silver Notebook'' (O'Brien Press, 2007) * ''I Won’t Go to China!'' (O'Brien Press, 2009)

Awards

* 2015 - Member,

Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association or academy of artists, each of whom must have produced a distinguished body of work of genuine originality. It was created in 1981 by the country's Arts Council on the initiati ...

- * 2013 - Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship for her poetry * 2011 - Reading Association of Ireland Special Merit Award * 1996 - Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyley, Enda Aosdána members 20th-century Irish writers 21st-century Irish writers Irish poets 1966 births Living people Alumni of Marino Institute of Education