Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year

Shortlisted 2021

Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, and eight novels: After You’d Gone, My Lover’s Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, Instructions For A Heatwave, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, This Must Be The Place, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award, and Hamnet, which won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Edinburgh.

Maggie O’Farrell photo credit: Murdo MacLeod

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

Rónán Hession

Marian Keyes

Liz Nugent

John Boyne

Donal Ryan

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