Marita Conlon-McKenna is an Irish

Ireland

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. She was born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown

Goatstown

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

Marita has won several literary award

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s, 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
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   (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)

External links

• Short biography and book review