Authors Families
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Orlagh Collins
Born in Dublin, Orlagh left Ireland after university to break into the film industry in London, working on productions such as Calendar Girls and Ali G before taking over as Head of Physical Production at Pathe Films, where she oversaw numerous award-winning films including Breakfast on Pluto...
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Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell is a young British actor who recently appeared on our screens in Any Human Heart, the adaptation of William Boyds bestselling novel. She has several key projects airing over the Winter period that include both cinema and television. She plays Princess Merkalova alongside Keira...
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Paddy Bouma
Paddy Bouma was born in Cape Town in 1947. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, obtaining the degree BA (Fine Art) in 1967. She was awarded the McIver Scholarship by UCT for 1969 and studied Lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, as a Bursary Student of the French Gov...
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Emer Stamp
Emer Stamp is the bestselling author of the Diary of Pig series, winner in the 6-8 category of the Lollies 2018. She started out as a graphic designer before moving to a career in advertising, where, among her roles, she was Creative Director for the advertising agency behind the iconic John L...
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Paige Toon
Paige Toon was born in 1975 and grew up between England, Australia and America. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and women's magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. Paige is married, has two small children and lives in Cambridge.
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Ellie Snowdon
Ellie Snowdon studied Drawing & Applied Arts degree at UWE (Bristol) and went on to gain an MA in Children's book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, in 2015. Ellie was twice highly commended for the Macmillan Prize in the same year. She now lives in Cambridge and works from he...
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Paola Peretti
PAOLA PERETTI is Italian and was born in the province of Verona, where she still lives today. She studied literature and philosophy and graduated in publishing and journalism in 2011 with a thesis on gender discrimination in literature. She also attended the Palomar School of creative writing...
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Ellen Renner
Ellen Renner was born in the Ozarks mountains of Missouri. She decided to become a writer when her fourth grade teacher, Mrs Ormsby, read Charlotte's Web to the class one spring afternoon. Reading about other people and places made her want to travel, and Ellen first came to England in...
