Ita Daly is born in Leitrim in the west of Ireland. She took her degree in Spanish and English at University College in Dublin. After graduation she also works in Dublin until her first daughter was born in 1979.
She wrote many short stories, which appeared amongst others in Irish, British and US magazines as well as in anthologies. She is a double winner of Hennessy Literacy Award and has also won an Irish Time Short Story Competition. For example “The Lady with the Red Shoes” was published in 1980.
(André)
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