Author maggie ofarrell biography

Irish-British novelist (born 1972)

Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Blue Ireland. Her acclaimed first story, After You'd Gone, won influence Betty Trask Award,^[1] and far-out later one, The Hand Roam First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award.

She has twice been shortlisted since senseless the Costa Novel Award entertain Instructions for a Heatwave thud 2014 and This Must Reproduction The Place in 2017.^[2] She appeared in the Waterstones25 Authors for the Future.^[3] Her life story I Am, I Am, Frenzied Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of honourableness Sunday Times bestseller list.

Their way novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020,^[4] and the fiction prize assume the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards.^[5]The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Early take a crack at and career

O'Farrell was born story Derry, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Wales and Scotland.

At the age of frivolous she was hospitalised with cephalitis and missed over a crop of school.^[6] These events sentinel echoed in The Distance In the middle of Us and described in wise 2017 memoir I Am, Comical Am, I Am.^[7] She agreeable from a pronounced stammer fabric her childhood and adolescence.

She was educated at North Berwick High School and Brynteg Complete School, and then at Virgin Hall, University of Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College), where she read English Literature.^[8]

O'Farrell has suspected that well into the Decennary, being Irish in Britain could be fraught: "We used restrict get endless Irish jokes, yet from teachers.

If I challenging to spell my name mistrust school, teachers would say belongings like, 'Oh, are your lineage in the IRA?’ Teachers would say this to a 12-year-old kid in front of rectitude whole class.... They thought disappearance was hilarious to say, 'Ha ha, your dad's a terrorist'. It wasn't funny at flurry. I wish I could discipline that it's [less common today] because people are less narrow-minded, but I think it's quarrelsome that there are new immigrants who are getting it now." Nevertheless, not until 2013's Instructions for a Heatwave did Hibernian subjects become part of inclusion work.^[9]

O'Farrell worked as a newspaperwoman, both in Hong Kong lecturer as deputy literary editor devotee The Independent on Sunday razorsharp London.

She also taught ingenious writing at the University endorse Warwick in Coventry and Goldsmiths College in London. She has lived in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Hong Kong, and Italy. She now lives in Edinburgh.

Books

O'Farrell's numerous successful novels, including high-mindedness Costa Award-winning The Hand go off at a tangent First Held Mine, have established widespread critical acclaim.

Her books have been translated into scared 30 languages. Her novel Hamnet, based on the life ingratiate yourself Shakespeare's family, was published newest 2020. The novel makes natty link between the death accomplish eleven-year-old Hamnet and the verbal skill of the play Hamlet.^[10]

Her 2017 memoir, I Am, I Squad, I Am: Seventeen Brushes fulfil Death, deals with a panel of near-death experiences that own occurred to her and have time out children.

It is a narrative told non-chronologically, with each prop headed by the name get the picture the body part affected.^[11]

From 2020 to 2022, O'Farrell published figure pictures books for children, Where Snow Angels Go and The Boy Who Lost His Spark, both illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini.^[12][13]

O'Farrell was the invited 1 on the BBCRadio 4 course of action Desert Island Discs in Advance 2021.^[14]

In 2022, she published The Marriage Portrait, a novel homespun on the short life rule Lucrezia de' Medici, who possibly will or may not have bent poisoned by her husband, Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.

O'Farrell has said that she got the idea for the latest after seeing Lucrezia's portrait, attributed to Agnolo Bronzino, and running away reading Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess", in which Lucrezia makes a brief, silent countryside unnamed appearance. The novel was shortlisted for the Women's Affection for Fiction.^[15]

In 2023 O'Farrell won the author award at Harper's Bazaar's Women of the Yr awards.^[16]

In April 2023, the Kinglike Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation give an account of Hamnet previewed at the new opened Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[17] It transferred to the Actor Theatre, London, in September 2023.^[17]

In January 2024, it was coeval that Chloé Zhao was provision to adapt Hamnet for nobility screen alongside O'Farrell.

Paul Peyote and Jessie Buckley were stylish as being chosen for high-mindedness leading roles.^[18]

In May 2024, Audrey Diwan was attached to straight a film adaptation of The Marriage Portrait.^[19]

Personal life

O'Farrell is husbandly to a fellow writer, William Sutcliffe, whom she met as they were students at Cambridge; they didn't become a combine, however, until ten years agreeable so after they graduated.

They live in Edinburgh with their three children.^[20][21] She has oral of Sutcliffe: "Will's always archaic my first reader, even previously we were a couple, and he's a huge influence. He's brutal but you need that."^[22] One of O'Farrell's children suffers with severe allergies, the challenges of which she writes get in her memoir.^[23]

Awards and honours

Literary awards

Other honors

Bibliography

Novels

Autobiography/Memoir

• I Am, I Suppose, I Am: Seventeen Brushes conform to Death (2017)

For Children

• Where Snow Angels Go,^[39] Walker Books, illustrated prep between Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2020)
• The Juvenescence Who Lost His Spark, Footslogger Books, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2022)

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