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Revision as of 15:46, 15 June 2017
Marita Conlon-McKenna (born 1956) is an Irish children's writer.
Conlon-McKenna was born in Dublin and raised in Goatstown.[1] Her Children of the Famine trilogy 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, Conlon-McKenna and Donald Teskey (1990) – The Children of the Famine, book 1
- Wildflower Girl, C–M and Teskey (1991) – The Children of the Famine, 2
- The Blue Horse, C–M and Teskey (1992)
- Little Star, C-M and Christopher Coady (1993)
- The Very Last Unicorn, C-M and Coady (1995)
- Safe Harbour (1995)
- Fields of Home, C–M and Teskey (1996) – The Children of the Famine, 3
- No Goodbye (1997)
- Granny MacGinty (1999)
- In Deep Dark Wood (1999)
- The Magdalen (1999)
- Faoin Sceach Gheal, C-M, Teskey and Maire Nic Mhaolain (2000)
- 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)
- Mother of the Bride (2010)
- A Taste for Love (novel) (2011)
References
- ^ "Marita Conlon-McKenna". The O'Brien Press Ltd (obrien.ie). Retrieved 2015-09-28.
External links
- Marita Conlon-McKenna at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalogue records