Noelle Vial (December 25, 1959 – January 19, 2003)[citation needed] was an Irish poet from County Donegal, Ireland. She was the recipient of the Hennessy Literary Award for best emerging poet in 1994. Her debut poetry collection, Promiscuous Winds, was published in 1995.
Noelle Vial | |
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| Born | Noelle Sharkey 25 December 1959 Killybegs, Ireland |
| Died | 19 January 2003 (aged 43) Killybegs, Ireland |
| Resting place | Killybegs, Ireland |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Notable works | Promiscuous Winds |
| Notable awards | Hennessy Literary award |
| Spouse | Charlie Vial[1] |
Early life edit
Noelle Sharkey was born on 25 December 1959 in Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland.[citation needed] Noelle was the recipient of a Pushkin prize for poetry in 1996.[citation needed] The Pushkin Prizes were established in 1987 by Sacha Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of her ancestor, Alexander Pushkin. The poetry prize was awarded annually to school aged children.[2][3]
Career edit
Vial wrote poetry and taught creative writing at St Catherine's Vocational School. She was a founding member of the Killybegs writers group. Her first poetry collection, Promiscuous Winds was published in the United States in 1995 by Story Line Press. Vial was the recipient of the Hennessy Literary Award for best emerging poet in 1994.[4]
Vial died at her home on 19 January 2003.[5] A number of poems were found among her papers after her death; Vial had been under contract for a new collection of poetry to be published in the U.S. Fourteen years later, the book of poems, The Ungrateful Princess, edited by writer, Liam McGinley, and Vial's son, Derek Vial, was published in 2017.[5]
In 2013, The Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival, supported by The Arts Council and Creative Ireland, established an annual poetry bursary for emerging poets in memory of Vial. The bursary, named the Noelle Vial Tyrone Guthrie Centre Poetry Bursary, provides a week-long stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Newbliss, County Monaghan[6]
Selected publications edit
- Vial, Noelle (1995). Promiscuous Winds. Story Line Press. ISBN 978-1885266132.
- Vial, Noelle (2017). The Ungrateful Princess. Five Points Press. ISBN 978-1527210264.
References edit
- ^ Murray, A. "Untimely Death of Local Poet and Author Noelle Vial". Marine Times. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "ARTS COUNCIL AND THE PUSHKIN PRIZE". Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "Pushkin opens young minds". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades". The Irish Times. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Second Noelle Vial book comes 14 years after her death". Killybegs Online. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "Donegal Now - The writing community celebrates the late Noelle Vial". The Irish Literary Times. Retrieved 2 June 2020.