Siobhan (or Siobhán) Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British/Irish writer; she wrote the drama/mystery, A Swift Pure Cry.
Siobhan Dowd was born in London, England, to Irish parents. She attended a Roman Catholic grammar school in south London and held a BA Hons degree in Classics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and an MA with distinction from Greenwich University in Gender and Ethnic Studies.
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Siobhan (or Siobhán) Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British/Irish writer; she wrote the drama/mystery, A Swift Pure Cry.
Siobhan Dowd was born in London, England, to Irish parents. She attended a Roman Catholic grammar school in south London and held a BA Hons degree in Classics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and an MA with distinction from Greenwich University in Gender and Ethnic Studies.
In 1984, she joined the writer's organisation International PEN, initially as a researcher for its Writers in Prison Committee and later as Program Director of PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write Committee in New York City. Her work there included founding and leading the Rushdie Defense Committee USA and travelling to Indonesia and Guatemala to investigate local human rights conditions for writers. During her seven-year stay in New York, Dowd was named one of the "top 100 Irish-Americans" by Irish-America Magazine and AerLingus, for her global anti-censorship work.
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