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searchaux" style="display:none">Irish-British novelist (born 1972)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Maggie_O%27Farrell_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="834" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1972-05-27</span>) </span>27 May 1972<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 52)</span><br />Derry</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Murray_Edwards_College,_Cambridge" title="Murray Edwards College, Cambridge">New Hall, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Fiction, historical fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/After_You%27d_Gone" title="After You'd Gone">After You'd Gone</a></i> (2000)</li><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hand_That_First_Held_Mine" title="The Hand That First Held Mine">The Hand That First Held Mine</a></i> (2010)</span></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i> (2020)</li><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Marriage_Portrait_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Marriage Portrait (novel) (page does not exist)">The Marriage Portrait</a></i> (2022)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/William_Sutcliffe" title="William Sutcliffe">William Sutcliffe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maggieofarrell.com">maggieofarrell<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Maggie O'Farrell</b>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">RSL</a> (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/After_You%27d_Gone" title="After You'd Gone">After You'd Gone</a></i>, won the <a href="/wiki/Betty_Trask_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Betty Trask Award">Betty Trask Award</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ff_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ff-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a later one, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hand_That_First_Held_Mine" title="The Hand That First Held Mine">The Hand That First Held Mine</a></i>, the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Costa Novel Award</a>. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for <i>Instructions for a Heatwave</i> in 2014 and <i>This Must Be The Place</i> in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-Irish_Times:_Derry-born_author_wins_Costa_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times:_Derry-born_author_wins_Costa-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Waterstones" title="Waterstones">Waterstones</a> <i>25 Authors for the Future</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her memoir <i>I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death</i> reached the top of the <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a></i> bestseller list. Her novel <i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i> won the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Women's Prize for Fiction</a> in 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the fiction prize at the 2020 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award" title="National Book Critics Circle Award">National Book Critics Circle Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Marriage Portrait</i> was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>O'Farrell was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and grew up in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. At the age of eight she was hospitalised with <a href="/wiki/Encephalitis" title="Encephalitis">encephalitis</a> and missed over a year of school.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These events are echoed in <i>The Distance Between Us</i> and described in her 2017 memoir <i>I Am, I Am, I Am</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She suffered from a pronounced stammer during her childhood and adolescence. She was educated at <a href="/wiki/North_Berwick_High_School" title="North Berwick High School">North Berwick High School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brynteg_Comprehensive_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Brynteg Comprehensive School">Brynteg Comprehensive School</a>, and then at <a href="/wiki/Murray_Edwards_College,_Cambridge" title="Murray Edwards College, Cambridge">New Hall, University of Cambridge</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Murray_Edwards_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Murray Edwards College">Murray Edwards College</a>), where she read English Literature.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>O'Farrell has stated that well into the 1990s, being Irish in Britain could be fraught: "We used to get endless Irish jokes, even from teachers. If I had to spell my name at school, teachers would say things like, 'Oh, are your family in the IRA?’ Teachers would say this to a 12-year-old kid in front of the whole class.... They thought it was hilarious to say, 'Ha ha, your dad's a terrorist'. It wasn't funny at all.... I wish I could say that it's [less common today] because people are less racist, but I think it's just that there are new immigrants who are getting it now." Nevertheless, not until 2013's <i>Instructions for a Heatwave</i> did Irish subjects become part of her work.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>O'Farrell worked as a journalist, both in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and as deputy literary editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent on Sunday</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. She also taught creative writing at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warwick" title="University of Warwick">University of Warwick</a> in Coventry and <a href="/wiki/Goldsmiths_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Goldsmiths College">Goldsmiths College</a> in London. She has lived in <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, Wales, Scotland, Hong Kong, and <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>. She now lives in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>O'Farrell's numerous successful novels, including the <a href="/wiki/Costa_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Costa Award">Costa Award</a>-winning <i>The Hand that First Held Mine</i>, have received widespread critical acclaim. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages. Her novel <i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i>, based on the life of <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s family, was published in 2020. The novel makes a link between the death of eleven-year-old Hamnet and the writing of the play Hamlet.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her 2017 memoir, <i>I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death</i>, deals with a series of near-death experiences that have occurred to her and her children. It is a memoir told non-chronologically, with each chapter headed by the name of the body part affected.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 2020 to 2022, O'Farrell published two pictures books for children, <i>Where Snow Angels Go</i> and <i>The Boy Who Lost His Spark</i>, both illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>O'Farrell was the invited castaway on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">Radio 4</a> programme <i><a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a></i> in March 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, she published <i>The Marriage Portrait</i>, a novel based on the short life of <a href="/wiki/Lucrezia_de%27_Medici,_Duchess_of_Ferrara" title="Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara">Lucrezia de' Medici</a>, who may or may not have been poisoned by her husband, <a href="/wiki/Alfonso_II,_Duke_of_Ferrara" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara">Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara</a>. O'Farrell has said that she got the idea for the novel after seeing Lucrezia's portrait, attributed to <a href="/wiki/Agnolo_Bronzino" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnolo Bronzino">Agnolo Bronzino</a>, and from reading <a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>'s poem, "<a href="/wiki/My_Last_Duchess" title="My Last Duchess">My Last Duchess</a>", in which Lucrezia makes a brief, silent and unnamed appearance. The novel was shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Women's Prize for Fiction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023 O'Farrell won the author award at <a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar" title="Harper's Bazaar">Harper's Bazaar</a>'s Women of the Year awards.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>'s stage adaptation of <i>Hamnet</i> previewed at the newly opened Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It transferred to the Garrick Theatre, London, in September 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2024, it was reported that <a href="/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9_Zhao" title="Chloé Zhao">Chloé Zhao</a> was planning to adapt <a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a> for the screen alongside O'Farrell. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Mescal" title="Paul Mescal">Paul Mescal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jessie_Buckley" title="Jessie Buckley">Jessie Buckley</a> were reported as being chosen for the leading roles.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2024, <a href="/wiki/Audrey_Diwan" title="Audrey Diwan">Audrey Diwan</a> was attached to direct a film adaptation of <i>The Marriage Portrait</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>O'Farrell is married to a fellow writer, <a href="/wiki/William_Sutcliffe" title="William Sutcliffe">William Sutcliffe</a>, whom she met while they were students at Cambridge; they didn't become a couple, however, until ten years or so after they graduated. They live in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> with their three children.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has said of Sutcliffe: "Will's always been my first reader, even before we were a couple, so he's a huge influence. He's brutal but you need that."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of O'Farrell's children suffers with severe allergies, the challenges of which she writes about in her memoir.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_awards">Literary awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literary awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Award/Honour </th> <th>Result </th> <th>Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <th>2001 </th> <td><i><a href="/wiki/After_You%27d_Gone" title="After You'd Gone">After You'd Gone</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Betty_Trask_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Betty Trask Award">Betty Trask Award</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2005 </th> <td><i>The Distance Between Us</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Maugham_Award" title="Somerset Maugham Award">Somerset Maugham Award</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2010 </th> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hand_That_First_Held_Mine" title="The Hand That First Held Mine">The Hand That First Held Mine</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_Costa_Book_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Costa Book Awards">Costa Book Award</a> for Fiction </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Irish_Times:_Derry-born_author_wins_Costa_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times:_Derry-born_author_wins_Costa-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2013 </th> <td><i>Instructions for a Heatwave</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_Costa_Book_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="2013 Costa Book Awards">Costa Book Award</a> for Fiction </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2016 </th> <td><i>This Must be the Place</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Costa_Book_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Costa Book Awards">Costa Book Award</a> for Fiction </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2018 </th> <td><i>I Am, I Am, I Am</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/PEN/Ackerley_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="PEN/Ackerley Prize">PEN/Ackerley Prize</a> </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2020 </th> <td rowspan="5"><i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award_for_Fiction" title="National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction">National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:13_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Women's Prize for Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">2021 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie_Medal_for_Excellence_in_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction">Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Longlisted </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dalkey Literary Awards's Novel of the Year </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott_Prize" title="Walter Scott Prize">Walter Scott Prize</a> </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2023 </th> <td><i>The Boy Who Lost His Spark</i> </td> <td>KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_honors">Other honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2021 <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/After_You%27d_Gone" title="After You'd Gone">After You'd Gone</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i>My Lover's Lover</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>The Distance Between Us</i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vanishing_Act_of_Esme_Lennox" title="The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox">The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hand_That_First_Held_Mine" title="The Hand That First Held Mine">The Hand That First Held Mine</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i>Instructions for a Heatwave</i> (2013)</li> <li><i>This Must Be the Place</i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)" title="Hamnet (novel)">Hamnet</a></i> (2020), <a href="/wiki/Tinder_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Tinder Press">Tinder Press</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4722-2379-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4722-2379-1">978-1-4722-2379-1</a></li> <li><i>The Marriage Portrait</i> (2022), Tinder Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4722-2384-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4722-2384-5">978-1-4722-2384-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autobiography/Memoir"><span id="Autobiography.2FMemoir"></span>Autobiography/Memoir</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Autobiography/Memoir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death</i> (2017)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_Children">For Children</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: For Children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Where Snow Angels Go</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walker Books, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2020)</li> <li><i>The Boy Who Lost His Spark</i>, Walker Books, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (2022)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maggie_O%27Farrell&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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