Roisin Meaney

In 1977 Roisin Meaney finished a sentence and won a car. The sentence was ‘I would like to win a Ford Fiesta because my father won't let me drive his’. In the 24 years that followed she wrote a lot more sentences and won a lot more prizes. In 2001, she finally decided to keep writing sentences until she filled a book. Since then she's written a number of bestselling novels and two children's books. Her work has been translated into many European languages including German, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Italian and has been published in the US. Born in Kerry, Roisin has also lived in Dublin, Tipperary, London, Zimbabwe and San Francisco. Her present home, and her main place of residence since the age of 8, is Limerick.