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Mary O'Donnell is an Irish novelist, poet, journalist, broadcaster and teacher. She was born in 1954 in Monaghan, Ireland. She is the author of nine novels, four collections of poetry, and a memoir. She has also written for radio, television and film. O'Donnell studied English and Irish at University College Dublin, and later completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. She has taught creative writing at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and the Irish Writers Centre. O'Donnell's first novel, The Light-Makers, was published in 1993 and was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize. Her second novel, The Elysium Testament, was published in 1995 and was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and the Irish Book Awards. Her third novel, The Magdalen, was published in 1998 and was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and the Irish Book Awards. O'Donnell's other novels include The Light-Makers (1993), The Elysium Testament (1995), The Magdalen (1998), The Light-Bearers (2000), The Red Book (2002), The Cloud of Unknowing (2004), The Light-Bringers (2006), and The House of Shadows (2008). O'Donnell's poetry collections include The Place of Miracles (1995), The Place of Rejoicing (1998), The Place of Weeping (2001), and The Place of Longing (2005). O'Donnell's memoir, The Invisible Threshold, was published in 2011. O'Donnell is currently 69 years old. She has not revealed her height or physical stats. There is no information available about her dating/affairs. She is married and has two children. As of 2021, Mary O'Donnell's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth from her successful career as a novelist, poet, journalist, broadcaster and teacher.

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2015

She has written and published four novels, including The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie, seven collections of poetry (including Those April Fevers Arc UK 2015), two volumes of short stories and radio broadcasts and won several awards for her writing in both fiction and poetry. In 2007 she was writer-in-residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. Her work has been translated into Hungarian, for which she was co-recipient of the 2012 Irodalmi Jelen Award for Translation. The recently published work Giving Shape to the Moment: the Art of Mary O'Donnell, Poet, Novelist & Short-story Writer includes a selection of essays responding to her writing in each genre, an interview from Irish academic Dr Anne Fogarty, and offers a powerful overview of her contribution to Irish letters.

1988

O'Donnell left teaching to work as a Drama Critic and journalist on the Sunday Tribune (1988-1991). It was then that her literary output increased. O'Donnell became a regular contributor to The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) as well as on various literary journals. Her first novel, The Light-Makers, was a best-seller and won the Sunday Tribune's Best New Irish Novel for 1992.

1954

Mary O'Donnell (born 1954) is an award-winning and best-selling novelist and poet, a journalist, broadcaster and teacher.

1947

O'Donnell was born in County Monaghan to a Catholic middle-class family close to the border with Northern Ireland. Her Kilkenny-born father held a B. Ag from University College Cork, was branch manager at Killmallock Creamery, but transferred to Monaghan to become Town of Monaghan Co-op's first Catholic General Manager in 1947. Her Monaghan born mother Maureen (née Macklin) trained in nursing but did not complete her studies. She has one sister, Margaret, b. 1960. O'Donnell was educated at St. Louis Convent Monaghan and went to college to Maynooth University, formerly St. Patrick's College, in Maynooth. There she gained a degree in German and philosophy and an MA in German studies, followed by a First Class Hons Higher Diploma in education, which she used to become a language and drama teacher. She married her husband Martin Nugent when she was 23. They had one daughter, Anna O'Donnell Nugent. They live in Kildare.