Marita Conlon-McKenna

Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 1956 in Dublin) is an Irish children's novels author. She was born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown.

She is the author of the Children of the Famine Trilogy which was inspired by the Great Irish Famine.

Marita has won several literary awards, including the International Reading Association Award', the Osterreichischer Kinder und Jugendbuchpreis, the Reading Association of Ireland Award and the Bisto Book of the Year Award (1993).

Works

• Under the Hawthorn Tree (1990) (The Children of the Famine Trilogy) (with Donald Teskey)
• Wildflower Girl (1991) (The Children of the Famine Trilogy) (with Donald Teskey)
• The Blue Horse (1992) (with Donald Teskey)
• Little Star (1993) (with Christopher Coady)
• The Very Last Unicorn (1995) (with Christopher Coady)
• Safe Harbour (1995)
• Fields of Home (1996) (The Children of the Famine Trilogy) (with Donald Teskey)
• No Goodbye (1997)
• Granny MacGinty (1999)
• In Deep Dark Wood (1999)
• The Magdalen (1999)
• Faoin Sceach Gheal (2000) (with Donald Teskey , Maire Nic Mhaolain)
• Promised Land (2000)
• Good Girl (2001) (Short story)
• Im Drachenwald (2002)
• Miracle Woman (2002)
• A Girl Called Blue (2003)
• The Stone House (2004)
• The Hat Shop on the Corner (2006)
• The Matchmaker (2008 forthcoming)
• "Mother of the bride" (2010)

External links

• Short biography and book review at the O'Brien Press
• Marita Conlon-McKenna at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalogue records