WRITER

Maggie O'Farrell

1972 - Today

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Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maggie O'Farrell has received more than 727,800 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Maggie O'Farrell is the 6,754th most popular writer, the 6,229th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 700th most popular British Writer.

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  • 730k

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  • 46.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 6,754 out of 7,302. Before her are Zoe Akins, Hiba Abu Nada, Dave Eggers, Maja Haderlap, Miles Franklin, and Susan Abulhawa. After her are Alexandre Jardin, Sally Rooney, H. Beam Piper, Kamel Daoud, James K. Morrow, and George Etherege.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 563. Before her are Anton Vaino, Elena Pampoulova, Valerio Mastandrea, Mariana Sadovska, Peter Møller, and Capucho. After her are Santiago Botero, Justina Machado, Nathalie Poza, Skander Souayah, Sabine Appelmans, and Pooja Bhatt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 6,229 out of 8,785. Before her are Steve Coppell (1955), Raymond Keene (1948), Penny Mordaunt (1973), Jim Crawford (1948), Ronnie Corbett (1930), and Dario Franchitti (1973). After her are Martin Atkinson (1971), Stuart Bingham (1976), Lalla Ward (1951), Roma Downey (1960), Anoushka Shankar (1981), and Chris Coleman (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Maggie O'Farrell ranks 700. Before her are Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), Elizabeth Carter (1717), Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802), David Hare (1947), Alison Weir (1951), and Jane Taylor (1783). After her are George Etherege (1635), Stanley Middleton (1919), Charley Boorman (1966), Nina Bawden (1925), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), and Stevie Smith (1902).

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