Cecelia Ahern
| Cecelia Ahern | |
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| Born |
30 September 1981 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Griffith College, Dublin |
| Period | 2002 – present |
| Genre | Romance, Contemporary Adult Fiction, Young Adult |
| Notable works | PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here, Thanks For The Memories, The Year I Met You, The Marble Collector, The Gift, The Book of Tomorrow, and Lyrebird |
| Spouse | David Keoghan (m. 2010) |
| Relatives |
Bertie Ahern (father), Georgina Ahern (older sister) and Nicky Byrne (brother-in-law) |
| Website | |
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Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist whose work was first published in 2004. Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. She is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over twentyfive million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series.
She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You.She has published several novels and contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies. Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate.
She is a face of Littlewoods Ireland.
Ahern is the daughter of the former Taoiseach of Ireland, Bertie Ahern. Her older sister, Georgina Ahern, is married to Nicky Byrne of Irish pop group Westlife. In 2000, Cecelia Ahern was part of the Irish pop group Shimma, who finished third in the Irish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Before starting her writing and producing career, she obtained a degree in Journalism and Media Communications from Griffith College Dublin, but withdrew from a Master's degree course to pursue her writing career.
On 14 December 2009, it was announced that Cecelia had given birth to her first child with husband David Keoghan, a girl named Robin. One of her spokeswomen confirmed in March 2012 that she was pregnant with a second child. Cecelia gave birth to her second child a boy named Sonny on 23 July 2012. They currently live in Malahide in North County Dublin.
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