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Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern was born on September 30, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland. She received a degree in journalism and media communications from Griffith College Dublin. She wrote her first novel PS, I Love You at the age of 21. This novel was made into a movie starring Hilary Swank. Some of her other novels toon meer include If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here, There's No Place Like Here, and Thanks for the Memories. She won the 2005 Irish Post Award for Literature and a 2005 Corine Award for Where Rainbows End. She is also the co-creator and producer of the television show Samantha Who? (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Cecelia Ahern

PS ik hou van je (2004) 6,100 exemplaren
Love, Rosie (2004) 2,764 exemplaren
If you could see me now (2006) 1,869 exemplaren
De plek van de verloren dingen (2006) 1,682 exemplaren
Ik zal je nooit vergeten (2008) 1,579 exemplaren
Het boek van morgen (2009) 1,484 exemplaren
Voor jou (2009) 1,119 exemplaren
Flawed (2016) 786 exemplaren
Honderd namen (2012) 636 exemplaren
De tijd van mijn leven (2011) 609 exemplaren
Zo word je verliefd (2013) 399 exemplaren
Postscript (2019) 346 exemplaren
Perfect (2016) 337 exemplaren
de knikkerverzamelaar (2015) 273 exemplaren
Toen ik jou ontmoette (2014) 273 exemplaren
Roar (2018) 206 exemplaren
Lyrebird (2016) 202 exemplaren
Girl in the Mirror: Two Stories (2010) 142 exemplaren
Irish Girls Are Back in Town (2004) 110 exemplaren
De som van jou en mij (2021) 104 exemplaren
Mrs. Whippy (2006) 75 exemplaren
The Ghostwriter (2014) 21 exemplaren
In a Thousand Different Ways (2023) 21 exemplaren
Every Year: Short Stories (2010) 14 exemplaren
Rosie Dunne [abridged] (2005) — Auteur — 14 exemplaren
The Bog Warrior (2014) 14 exemplaren
Samantha Who?: The Complete First Season (2008) — Creator — 10 exemplaren
Samantha Who?: The Complete Second and Final Season (2012) — Creator — 5 exemplaren
Lyyralintu (2019) 2 exemplaren
De som van jou en mij (2022) 2 exemplaren
Dívka zvaná Lyra (2020) 1 exemplaar
Flawed Chapters 1-5 1 exemplaar
Bárcsak láthatnál (2013) 1 exemplaar
Lirogon (2017) 1 exemplaar
An Open Book 1 exemplaar
Életed regénye 1 exemplaar
Os Imperfeitos (2017) 1 exemplaar
Garra (Portuguese Edition) (2021) 1 exemplaar
Book Tomorrow lib CD (2011) 1 exemplaar
Da quando ti ho incontrato (2018) 1 exemplaar
PS. Jeg elsker dig for evigt (2020) 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1981-09-30
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Ireland
Geboorteplaats
Dublin, Ireland
Woonplaatsen
Dublin, Ireland
Opleiding
Griffith College, Dublin (Journalism and Media Communications)
Beroepen
Novelist
TV Producer
Relaties
Ahern, Bertie (father)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Corine Award (2005)
Irish Post Award (Literature, 2005)
Fun Fearless Fiction Award (2007)
Korte biografie
Cecelia Ahern was born on September 30, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland. She is the daughter of Bertie Ahern, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) since June 26,1997, and is the sister-in-law of Nicky Byrne of Irish popgroup Westlife, who is married to her older sister, Georgina Ahern. In 2000, Cecelia was part of the Irish pop-group Shimma, who finished third in the Irish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. Before embarking on her writing career, Cecelia Ahern completed a Degree in Journalism and Media Communications.

At twenty-one, she wrote her debut novel PS, I Love You, published in January 2004, which was sold to over forty countries. The novel was one of the biggest-selling debut novels of 2004, reaching No.1 in Ireland and in the U.K. Sunday Times bestseller list and was selected for the Richard and Judy Summer Read campaign. It was also a bestseller throughout Europe and the U.S.A., staying on the best-seller list in Germany for over 52 weeks. For her debut novel, she was nominated for Best Newcomer 2004/05 at the British Book and in 2006, she was long-listed for the IMPAC award. The film of the same title was optioned by Warner Bros and Wendy Finerman Productions. It has now been made into a motion picture directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Bates, Gerry Butler, Harry Connick Jr., Gina Gershon and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

In November 2004, her second book, Where Rainbows End (U.S.A.: Love, Rosie / Rosie Dunne), also reached No.1 in Ireland and the UK, remaining at the top of the Irish bestsellers list for 12 weeks and again a bestseller internationally. For her second book, she won the 2005 Irish Post Award for Literature and a 2005 Corine Award for Where Rainbows End (Fur Immer Viellecht), which was voted by German readers. In November 2005, her third book, If You Could See Me Now was published and also became an international bestseller. In May 2007 Cosmopolitan U.S. honoured her with a Fun Fearless Fiction Award 2007 for her thrid book. It has been optioned by SB Films (London) Producer Simon Brooks.

In October 2006, her fourth novel, A Place Called Here, was a international number one bestseller and has gone straight to No.1 in U.K. and Ireland. It was published in U.S.A. under the title There's No Place Like Here. It is optioned by Touchstone with Warren Littlefield for a TV Drama series.

Cecelia has contributed with short stories to the following anthologies for which all her royalties go to charity: Irish Girls are Back in Town, Short and Sweet, Moments, Ladies Night 4, Girls Night in 2 and she has written a novella titled Mrs. Whippy.

Other published stories are The Production Line for Express Magazine, Every Year for Harrod's Magazine, The Things That I Remember for Woman's Own, Remembering Mum for Express Magazine, Mallard and May for Woman and Home.

Cecelia also is the co-creater (along with Donald Todd) and producer of the ABC half-hour comedy television show, Samantha Who? Stars: Christina Applegate, Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito, Barry Watson, Kevin Dunn, Melissa McCarthy and Tim Russ.

Cecelia Ahern continues living in Dublin and is currently writing her next novel.

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True love, friendship and luck - a warm-hearted novel about where fate can lead you from the No.1 bestselling author.Now being filmed as LOVE, ROSIE. Best friends since forever, Rosie and Alex have shared their hopes, dreams, awkward moments - and firsts. But their bond is threatened when Alex's family move to America. They stay in touch, but misunderstandings, circumstances and sheer bad luck seem to be conspiring to keep them apart. Can they gamble everything - even their friendship - on true love?… (meer)
 
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A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the No.1 bestselling author.How can you know someone you've never met?Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why ...… (meer)
 
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A redemptive and captivating novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of PS. I Love You.

Ever wondered where lost things go?

Ever since the day her classmate vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something – or someone – disappears. Finding has become her goal.

Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother who vanished into thin air a year ago. He spots an ad for Sandy's missing persons agency and is certain that she will answer his prayers and find his brother.

But then Sandy disappears too, stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants, more than anything, is to find her way home.
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Lose yourself in the magical and mesmerising story from Cecelia Ahern of how tomorrow can change what happens today.

Sometimes tomorrow has to start today…

Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a travelling library arrives in her tiny village, bringing with it a mysterious, large leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp and padlock.

What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her work to its core.… (meer)
 
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Leden
21,243
Populariteit
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½ 3.6
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814
ISBNs
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