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Biographie de Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy was born in Country Dublin and was educated at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney and at University College Dublin. After a spell as a teacher in various girl's schools, she joined the Irish Times, for which she wrote feature 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 a bestseller. Several have been adapted for cinema ans television, most notably Circle of Friends in 1995. She waas warded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Award in 1999. She is married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell.