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Maggie O'Farrell
Irish-British novelist (born 1972) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award,[1] and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017.[2] She appeared in the Waterstones 25 Authors for the Future.[3] Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020,[4] and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards.[5] The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Born | (1972-05-27) 27 May 1972 (age 52) Derry |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | New Hall, Cambridge |
Genre | Fiction, historical fiction |
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Spouse | William Sutcliffe |
Children | 3 |
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