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Marian Keyes Biog
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. |
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