Cecelia Ahern

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While Cecelia Ahern may be young, she has had an immediate impact on the literary and television worlds. Born in Dublin, Ireland in September of 1981, she first appeared before the public eye as a singer in the group Shimma that placed third in the Eurovision Song Contest final.

She then earned her Journalism and Media Communications degree from Griffith College Dublin before her very first novel was published in 2002. Entitled ‘PS, I Love You’ it went on to top the best-seller lists for a stunning 19 weeks in Ireland, Holland, Germany, the US, and the United Kingdom.

Following this, the book was later turned into a movie in 2007. Cecelia then followed this first novel with ‘Where Rainbows End’ in 2005 and proved she certainly had the recipe for success as it too made the number one spot in the UK and Ireland, and in Germany it garnered the CORINE Award. Along with her own novels she has written works for charity as well as short stories such as ’24 Minutes’, ‘The Calling’, ‘Mrs. Wippy’, and ‘Next Stop: Table For Two’.

Between writing novels, Cecelia ventured into television and co-created the series ‘Samantha Who’ which she also produces for ABC. The most recent books from Cecelia Ahern include ‘The Gift’ in 2008 and ‘The Book of Tomorrow’ that came out in October of 2009. Her father is a writer himself and has written his own autobiography that was published that same year.

Today Ahern is still writing away and working on her television series, and there are currently three of her novels in the works to appear on the big screen at this date. These include ‘If You Could See Me Now’, ‘Thanks for the Memories’, and ‘Where Rainbows End’. She is living with her partner, David Keoghan, and expecting their first child.