Mulkerns, Val (1925–)

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Mulkerns, Val (1925–)

Irish novelist and short-story writer. Born 1925 in Dublin, Ireland.

Was Mayo Co. library's first writer-in-residence; wrote weekly column for Evening Press (1968–83); was assistant editor of literary magazine The Bell (1950s); works include A Time Outworn (1951), A Peacock Cry (1954), Antiquities (1978), A Friend of Don Juan (1979), An Idle Woman (1980), The Summerhouse (1984), and Very Like a Whale (1986); edited New Writings from the West.

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