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Biographie de Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy was born in Country Dublin and was educated at the Holy Child Covent in Killiney and at University College Dublin. After a spell as a teacher in various girls' schools, she joined the Irish Times, for which she wrote features articles and columns. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and since then she has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, each one of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circe of Friends and Tara Road. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Awards in 1999. She is married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell.