Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is an Irish-British novelist known for literary fiction such as Hamnet, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020. Her first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death topped the Sunday Times bestseller list, and she co-wrote the screen adaptation of Hamnet with Chloé Zhao, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.