Meet the Writers 2024

Here you find listings of the writers who appeared at our 2024 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.
Tobi Lakmaker

Tobi Lakmaker

Debut, Fiction, LGBTQI+, Novel, Translation

Tobi Lakmaker was born in 1994 and lives in Amsterdam. He writes columns for De Groene Amsterdammer and LINDA.meiden. The…

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Shari Lapena

Shari Lapena

Crime, Fiction, Novel

Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thrillers The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The…

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Kate Lawlor

Kate Lawlor

Irish Writing, Short Stories

Kate Lawlor is a writer from Dublin. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student…

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Sue Leonard

Sue Leonard

Interviewer

A journalist and ghostwriter, Sue Leonard is the co-author of twelve books including two number one best-sellers. If Memory Serves Me Wrong, co-written…

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Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch

Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Paul Lynch is the prize-winning author of the novels Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red…

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Michael Magee

Michael Magee

Debut, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Michael Magee is the fiction editor of The Tangerine and a graduate of the PhD Creative Writing programme at Queen’s…

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Andrea Mara

Andrea Mara

Crime, Fiction, Irish Writing

Andrea Mara is a Sunday Times and Irish Times number one bestselling author, and has been shortlisted for a number…

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Humour, Memoir, Non-Fiction

Born in Oxford, England in 1941 & educated at Newham College, Cambridge, Miriam Margolyes is an award-winning veteran of the…

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Emer Martin

Emer Martin

Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East and New York, and is now…

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Meet the Writers 2024

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