Maggie O'Farrell

b. 1972

2 standalone books

Maggie O'Farrell is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted 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, and her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.

Born

1972