Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern on the blue sofa at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

Cecelia Ahern (born September 30, 1981 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer , playwright , screenwriter and the daughter of the former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern .

Life and accomplishments

Cecelia Ahern wrote comics and stories as a child. She studied journalism and media communication in Dublin. In 2004 her first novel P.S. I love you , sold in 50 countries and published in 15 languages. The rights for the film were acquired by Warner Brothers . The film, with Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the leading roles, had its US premiere on December 21, 2007 and was released in Germany on January 17, 2008. The film is a very free adaptation of the novel, in which not much has been taken over from the novel plot. The novel was one of the best-selling debut novels in 2004 and topped the bestseller lists for 17 weeks in the Irish press and the UK's Sunday Times .

In November 2005, her second book, Forever, may also make first place on Irish and UK sales lists; However, it lasted for only 10 weeks. The book was on the German bestseller list for 12 weeks.

Ahern has also been in the television business since 2007. The series Samantha Who? with Christina Applegate in the lead role ran in the USA from 2007 to 2009 on Network ABC . From autumn 2008 the series was also broadcast in Germany on ProSieben .

Cecelia Ahern is married to David Keoghan. She has a daughter born in 2009 and a son born in 2012. In 2019 their third child, a daughter, was born.

Awards

• 2011 LovelyBooks readers' award in the category romance / love / feeling for a moment for life

Works

Novels

• PS, I Love You (2004)
  • PS I love you , German by Christine Strüh; Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-596-16133-9 - audio book, read by Jeanette Hain , Munich, the Hörverlag 2004. ISBN 3-89940-866-7
• Where Rainbows End (2004) (US titles Rosie Dunne and Love, Rosie )
  • Perhaps forever , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-8105-0141-7 - audio book, read as a radio play by Simone Kabst, Andreas Petri, Franziska Roloff u. a., Munich, the Hörverlag. ISBN 3-89940-475-0
• If You Could See Me Now (2005) (US title A Silver Lining )
  • Between heaven and love , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-8105-0142-5 - audio book, read by Eva Gosciejewicz and Heikko Deutschmann , Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-318-4
• A Place Called Here (2006) (US title There's No Place Like Here )
  • Don't miss mine , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 3-8105-0143-3 - audio book, read by Heikko Deutschmann and Eva Gosciejewicz, Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-551-5
• Thanks for the Memories (2008)
  • I have a feeling for you , German from Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8105-0144-8 - audio book, read by Maja Schöne and Andreas Pietschmann , Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-539-3
• The Gift (2008)
  • Time of your life , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8105-0146-2 - audio book, read by Andreas Pietschmann, Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-841-7
• The Book of Tomorrow (2009)
  • I'll write to you again tomorrow , in German from Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8105-0145-5 - audio book, read by Josefine Preuß , Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8398-1033-0
• The Time of my Life (2011)
  • A moment for life , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8105-0147-9 - audio book, read by Luise Helm , Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8398-1110-8
• One hundred names (2012)
  • Hundred names , German from Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-402266-6 - audio book, read by Luise Helm, Argon, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8398-1173-3 .
• How to Fall in Love (2013)
  • The love of your life , German by Christine Strüh, Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8105-0151-6 - audio book read by Luise Helm
• The year I met you (2014)
  • The year in which I met you . German by Christine Strüh, Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-8105-0153-0 .
• The Marble Collector (2015)
  • The glass marble collector . German by Christine Strüh, Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-8105-0152-3 .
• Flawed (2016)
  • Flawed - How perfect do you want to be? German by Anna Julia Strüh and Christine Strüh, Fischer FJB, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-8414-2235-4 .
• Perfect (2016)
  • Perfect - do you want the perfect world? German by Anna Julia Strüh and Christine Strüh, Fischer FJB, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-8414-2236-1
• Lyrebird (2017), HarperCollins (English)
  • This is how your heart sounds German by Christine Strüh, Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-8105-3027-1

Novellas

• Herman Banks and The Ghost Writer (2014)
  • The ghostwriter  : Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-8105-0154-7 .

stories

• Twenty-Four Minutes (2004)
• Next Stop: Table For Two (2005)
• The Calling (2005)
• Mrs. Whippy (2006)
• The End (2006)
• Every Year (2010; nine stories: Every Year / Twnenty-Four Minutes / Next Stop: Table for Two / The Calling / The End / The Production Line / Celebrating Mum / Mallard and May / The Things That I Remember)
• Girl in the Mirror (2010, two stories: Girl in the Mirror / The Memory Maker)
  • As long as you see me (two stories: The smile of memory / The girl in the mirror), German by Christine Strüh and Barbara Christ , Krüger, Frankfurt / M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8105-0149-3 - audio book, read by Luise Helm and Heikko Deutschmann, Argon, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8398-1149-8

Television productions

• 2007–2009: Samantha Who? (with Donald Todd)

Film adaptations

• 2007: PS I love you (film) (film based on the novel of the same name)
• 2014: Cecelia Ahern - Between Heaven and Here (TV movie)
• 2014: Cecelia Ahern - My whole half life (TV movie)
• 2014: Love, Rosie - Forever Maybe (movie based on the novel of the same name)
• 2017: Cecelia Ahern - A Moment for Life (TV film based on the novel of the same name)
• 2018: Cecelia Ahern - To love you (TV movie)
• 2019: Cecelia Ahern - In your life (two-part television film based on the novel I have you in the feeling )

Web links

Commons : Cecelia Ahern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Cecelia Ahern in the catalog of the German National Library
• Cecelia Ahern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Cecelia Ahern at perlentaucher.de
• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved on August 22, 2014 : “Start date: October 30, 2014; Director: Christian Ditter. " 
2. ↑ Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe. In: Cinema.de. Retrieved on August 22, 2014 : “The Irish writer Cecelia Ahern is a guarantee for successful heart-pain novels. She landed her first big coup including filming with 'PS I love you'. Now 'Forever Maybe' follows, directed by Christian Ditter. [...] Theatrical release: October 30, 2014 "