Marita Conlon-McKenna

Marita Conlon-McKenna is one of Ireland's favourite authors. Her books include the award-winning Under the Hawthorn Tree which is set during Ireland’s great famine. Widely translated and published, it is now considered an Irish classic. Her other books include bestseller The Magdalen. She is a winner of the International Reading Association Award, USA and a former chair person of Irish PEN. Marita lives in Dublin with her husband and family.