Cecelia Ahern

She and her books have won awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You. She has published several novels and contributed short stories to various anthologies. Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? Starring Christina Applegate.

Cecelia Ahern studied at Griffith College Dublin and Pobalscoil Neasáin. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literary activity, prose and television production. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are romance. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dublin. Residence is recorded at County Dublin. Works named in the authority record are PS, I Love You, Love, Rosie, If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here and Thanks for the Memories.

• Name — Cecelia Ahern • Born — 30 September 1981 • Birthplace — Dublin, Ireland • Occupation — Novelist • Education — Griffith College, Dublin • Period — 2002–present • Genre — Romance Young adult • Notable Works — PS, I Love You Where Rainbows End If You Could See Me Now • Parents — Bertie Ahern (father) Miriam Ahern (mother) • Children — 3 • Website — http: www.cecelia-ahern.com/

Ahern obtained a degree in journalism and media communications from Griffith College Dublin, but withdrew from a master's degree course to pursue her writing career.

• Illustration — Ahern being interviewed during the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair • Illustration — Cecelia Ahern at Buch Wien 2022 In 2002, when 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. It was adapted as a motion picture titled Love, Rosie which was released in 2014, directed by Christian Ditter and starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin. 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 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 was published just before Christmas 2008 in the UK. Her following book, The Book of Tomorrow, was published on 1 October 2009. In 2016, Cecelia released Flawed, her first book for young adults, and Lyrebird.

Ahern married David Keoghan in 2010. They have three children: a daughter born in December 2009, a son born in July 2012 and another daughter born in October 2019. As of 2015, they were residing in Malahide in North County Dublin. Ahern is the daughter of former Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Bertie Ahern and Miriam Ahern. Her older sister, Georgina Ahern, is married to Nicky Byrne of Irish pop group Westlife. In 2000, Ahern was part of the Irish pop group Shimma, who finished third in the Irish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.

• "24 Minutes" in Moments (2004) • "Next Stop: Table For Two" in Short and Sweet (2005) • "The Calling" in Irish Girls Are Back in Town (2005) • Mrs. Whippy (2006) • "The End" in Girls' Night In (2006) • Girl in the Mirror (2010). Short story collection, containing the two stories "Girl in the Mirror" and "The Memory Maker". • Roar (2018). Short story collection, containing thirty stories.

• Every Year for "Harrod's Magazine" • The Things That I Remember for "Woman's Own" • Remembering Mum for "Express Magazine" • Mallard and May for "Woman and Home"

• Samantha Who? (with Donald Todd) • Zwischen Himmel und Hier (Between Heaven and Here) (for ZDF) • Mein Ganzes Halbes Leben (My Whole Half Life) (for ZDF)