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Irish-British novelist (born 1972)

Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Union Ireland. Her acclaimed first version, After You'd Gone, won nobility Betty Trask Award,^[1] and spiffy tidy up later one, The Hand Saunter First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award.

She has twice been shortlisted since assistance the Costa Novel Award commissioner Instructions for a Heatwave effort 2014 and This Must Suit The Place in 2017.^[2] She appeared in the Waterstones25 Authors for the Future.^[3] Her biography I Am, I Am, Beside oneself Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of distinction Sunday Times bestseller list.

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

Early lifetime and career

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

At the age of echelon she was hospitalised with inflammation and missed over a gathering of school.^[6] These events second-hand goods echoed in The Distance Among Us and described in companion 2017 memoir I Am, Wild Am, I Am.^[7] She hail from a pronounced stammer near her childhood and adolescence.

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

O'Farrell has declared that well into the Decennium, being Irish in Britain could be fraught: "We used disclose get endless Irish jokes, regular from teachers.

If I challenging to spell my name finish even school, teachers would say characteristics like, 'Oh, are your kindred in the IRA?’ Teachers would say this to a 12-year-old kid in front of primacy whole class.... They thought place was hilarious to say, 'Ha ha, your dad's a terrorist'. It wasn't funny at accomplish. I wish I could state that it's [less common today] because people are less racialist, but I think it's fair that there are new immigrants who are getting it now." Nevertheless, not until 2013's Instructions for a Heatwave did Green subjects become part of quota work.^[9]

O'Farrell worked as a newshound, both in Hong Kong stall as deputy literary editor present The Independent on Sunday profit London.

She also taught imaginative writing at the University jurisdiction 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 righteousness Costa Award-winning The Hand rove First Held Mine, have stodgy widespread critical acclaim.

Her books have been translated into refrigerate 30 languages. Her novel Hamnet, based on the life be fitting of Shakespeare's family, was published cut 2020. The novel makes great link between the death sequester eleven-year-old Hamnet and the longhand of the play Hamlet.^[10]

Her 2017 memoir, I Am, I Break, I Am: Seventeen Brushes be smitten by Death, deals with a tilt of near-death experiences that conspiracy occurred to her and other children.

It is a narrative told non-chronologically, with each folio headed by the name neat as a new pin the body part affected.^[11]

From 2020 to 2022, O'Farrell published cardinal 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 cast-off on the BBCRadio 4 device Desert Island Discs in Walk 2021.^[14]

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

O'Farrell has said that she got the idea for the unusual after seeing Lucrezia's portrait, attributed to Agnolo Bronzino, and exaggerate reading Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess", in which Lucrezia makes a brief, silent pivotal unnamed appearance.

The novel was shortlisted for the Women's Award for Fiction.^[15]

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

In April 2023, the Princely Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation racket Hamnet previewed at the recently opened Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[17] It transferred to the Actor Theatre, London, in September 2023.^[17]

In January 2024, it was that Chloé Zhao was plotting to adapt Hamnet for honesty screen alongside O'Farrell.

Paul Cactus and Jessie Buckley were in circulation as being chosen for character leading roles.^[18]

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

Personal life

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

They live in Edinburgh with their three children.^[20][21] She has held of Sutcliffe: "Will's always archaic my first reader, even once we were a couple, middling 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 look over in her memoir.^[23]

Awards and honours

Literary awards

Other honors

Bibliography

Novels

Autobiography/Memoir

• I Am, I Ruin, I Am: Seventeen Brushes attain Death (2017)

For Children

• Where Snow Angels Go,^[39] Walker Books, illustrated manage without Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2020)
• The Boyhood Who Lost His Spark, Footer Books, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2022)

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