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Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist since 2004. 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.

In 2002, when Cecelia Ahern was twenty-one, she wrote her first novel, PS, I Love You. Published in 2004, it was the number 1 bestseller in Ireland (for 19 weeks), the United Kingdom, U.S., Germany and the Netherlands. It is sold in over forty countries. The book was adapted as a motion picture directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. It was released in the United States on 21 December 2007.Her second book, Where Rainbows End (U.S. Love, Rosie), also reached number 1 in Ireland and the UK, and won the German CORINE Award in 2005.

She has contributed to charity books with the royalties from short stories such as Irish Girls are Back in Town and Ladies' Night. Cecelia was the co-creator with (along with Donald Todd) and producer of the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate, Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito, Barry Watson, Kevin Dunn, Melissa McCarthy and Tim Russ. Her book The Gift and was published just before Christmas 2008 in the UK. Her following book, The Book of Tomorrow, was published on the 1 October 2009.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Novels

  1. PS, I Love You
  2. Where Rainbows End
  3. If You Could See Me Now
  4. A Place Called Here
  5. Thanks for the Memories
  6. The Gift
  7. The Book of Tomorrow
  8. Girl in the Mirror / The Memory Maker
  9. The Time of my Life
  10. One Hundred Names
  11. How to Fall in Love
  12. The Year I Met You
  13. The Marble Collector
  14. Flawed

Short Stories

  1. 24 Minutes in "Moments"
  2. Next Stop
  3. The Calling in "Irish Girls Are Back In Town
  4. Mrs. Whippy
  5. The End in "Girls' Night In / Ladies' Night"

The production Line for Express Magazine

  1. Every Year
  2. The Things That I Remember
  3. Remembering Mum
  4. Mallard and May

Television Work

  1. Samantha Who?
  2. Zwischen Himmel und Hier (Between Heaven and Here)
  3. Mein Ganzes Halbes Leben (My Whole Half LIfe)

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