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A monster calls siobhan dowd6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() On her return to the UK, Siobhan co-founded English PEN's readers and writers program. During her seven-year stay in New York, Siobhan was named one of the 'top 100 Irish-Americans' by Irish-America Magazine and Aer Lingus for her global anti-censorship work. 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. In 1984, she joined the writer's organisation International PEN, becoming Program Director of PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write Committee in New York City. She attended a Catholic grammar school in south London, and went on to receive a BA in Classics from Oxford University and an MA with distinction in Gender and Ethnic Studies from Greenwich University. She was brought up in London, but spent much of her youth visiting the family homes in County Waterford, then Wicklow town. ![]() ![]() Siobhan Dowd was born in 1960 to Irish parents. ![]()
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