Writing · Novel · Screenplay · Co-Producer
Born May 27, 1972 · Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
Active 2025–present · Awards: Somerset Maugham Award, Women's Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 1972) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award.