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Maggie O'Farrell
Writing Hamnet and I Am, I Am, I Am.
The Hand That First Held Mine · I Am, I Am, I Am
- Born
- 1972
- Birthplace
- Coleraine
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Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell is a novelist and memoirist born in Northern Ireland whose work explores family, memory and loss.
Early life
Education
Grew up in several parts of Britain and Ireland and studied English at Cambridge; a long childhood illness deepened her interest in reading.
Career
- Journalism
Early work
Worked in Hong Kong and on The Independent on Sunday.
- 2000
First novel
Published After You’d Gone.
- 2020
Women’s Prize
Won for Hamnet.
Selected work
The Hand That First Held Mine
Won the Costa Novel Award.
I Am, I Am, I Am
Published a memoir organised around encounters with danger.
Hamnet
Imagined the family life surrounding Shakespeare’s son’s death.
The Marriage Portrait
Reimagined the life of Lucrezia de’ Medici.
Beyond work
Family
Married fellow novelist William Sutcliffe; they have three children.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
Photo: TimDuncan. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.