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Maggie O'Farrell

1972 - Today

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Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 1972) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award 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. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Maggie O'Farrell is the 6,986th most popular writer (down from 6,754th in 2024), the 6,720th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,228th in 2019) and the 724th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 6,986 out of 7,302. Before her are Ann Leckie, Elizabeth David, Louisa Lawson, Noel Streatfeild, David Sedaris, and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. After her are Cho Nam-joo, Sidney Lanier, Çiler İlhan, Raja Rao, Cyril Montana, and Aravind Adiga.

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Among people born in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 768. Before her are Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Sergei Gurenko, Elena Kaliská, Florian Gallenberger, Tetsu Inada, and Fernando Echávarri. After her are Margarita Fullana, Ryan Robbins, Marko Kon, Cho Min-sun, Çiler İlhan, and Marianne Thieme.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 6,720 out of 8,785. Before her are Noel Streatfeild (1895), Ian Crook (1963), Joe Gilgun (1984), and Paolo Nutini (1987). After her are John Sessions (1953), Zeki Fryers (1992), Linda Bassett (1950), Kevin Campbell (1970), Miranda Hart (1972), David Slade (1969), Mary Tamm (1950), and Sebastian de Souza (1993).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 724. Before her are David Hare (1947), Edwin Morgan (1920), Tom Parker Bowles (1974), Laurie Lee (1914), Charley Boorman (1966), and Noel Streatfeild (1895). After her are Helen Dunmore (1952), Tom Rob Smith (1979), Sebastian Faulks (1953), Kae Tempest (1985), John Mortimer (1923), and Ken MacLeod (1954).

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