Marian Keyes Bio
Marian Keyes has been the patron of Irish Children’s Charity ‘To Russia With Love’ since the summer of 2003 and she has worked tirelessly for us as an ambassador for the orphaned and abandoned children in Russia. Marian travelled to Hortolova Orphanage in January 2004 with ‘To Russia With Love’ and wrote about her experience in a short story in her book 'Further Under the Duvet' (she donated the royalties from sales of the hardback version of this book in Ireland to ‘To Russia With Love’)
Marian Keyes is a publishing phenomenon. Though she didn’t start writing until ten years ago, she is now one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time. Marian is now published in thirty-three languages, including Russian where her work is widely read.
To date, the woman who said she’d never write a novel has published eight of them, all bestsellers around the world, with a total of fifteen million of her books having been sold to date. 'Sushi for Beginner' and 'Angels' were No. 1 bestsellers on the Sunday Times list, and 'The Other Side of the Story' sold over half a million copies in paperback, making it the second highest selling paperback novel published in 2005, with 'Anybody Out There' repeating the feat in 2007. 'Anybody Out There' also won the British Book Awards award for popular fiction and the inaugural Melissa Nathan prize for Comedy Romance.
Her work has also come to the attention of Hollywood; 'Rachel’s Holiday' will be filmed later this year. 'Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married' has been made into a sixteen part television series, 'Watermelon' was a made for TV movie in 2003, and 'Last Chance Saloon' was filmed in French – 'Au Secours J’ai Trente Ans' was released in 2004.
As well as novels she writes short stories, and articles for various magazines and other publications. She includes among her hobbies, reading, movies, shoes, handbags and feminism. Marian currently lives in Dun Laoghaire County Dublin with her husband Tony.
More information about Marian is available at www.mariankeyes.com