Authors
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Renate AhrensRenate Ahrens was born in Germany in 1955. After some years working as a teacher, she moved to Dublin in 1986 with her husband and has since worked as a freelance author. As well as children’s and adult novels, she has writtenstage and radio plays and scripts for children’s television programmes.... |
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Veronica BennettVeronica Bennett has been an English teacher and a journalist, but now spends her time writing stories for children and young adults. Her first book, Monkey, was published in 1998, and she has since written twenty-two more. The Broomstick Bike is the only one that’s taken her on a motorcycle... |
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Dermot BolgerBorn in Dublin in 1959, Dermot Bolger’s nine novels for adults include The Woman’s Daughter, The Journey Home, The Valparaiso Voyage and most recently The Family on Paradise Pier. He is the author of over a dozen stage plays, including The Lament for Arthur Cleary, which received The Samuel Beckett... |
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Mikael EngströmMikael Engström was born in 1961 and grew up in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. In the mid-1980s he studied photography for two years and started writing seriously. Nowadays he earns his living as a freelance journalist and photographer. |
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Jean FlitcroftDr Jean Flitcroft, born in 1964, lives in Dublin with her husband and three boys. She attended Holy Child School, Killiney and studied science in University College Dublin. On being awarded a Welcome Scholarship she went on to Magdalen College, Oxford University where she obtained her doctorate.... |
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Maeve FrielMaeve Friel was born in Derry and educated in Dublin where she currently lives. She is the creator of the popular Tiger Lily trilogy and the Witch-in-Training series and has been the recipient of many awards including the Hennessy Award, the Bisto Book Award and the Reading Association of Ireland... |