Cecelia Ahern was born on 30 September 1981, at
Dublin, Ireland. Being a new young writer we don’t know too much about her. She
is a writer, a producer and the daughter of the ex Irish Prime Minister, Bertie
Ahern. She studied at Griffith College in Dublin and obtained a diploma in
journalism and media communication. Is the sister-in-low of the famous Irish
singer and song writer, Nicky Byrne, who married with her older sister,
Georgina Ahern. Cecelia Ahern married on 11 June, 2010 with David Keoghan and
they have two children, a girl named Robin and a boy named Sonny. [1]
She began her literary career in 2004 and published
several novels and even short stories. Ahern became famous with her first novel
entitled P.S I Love you which quickly
became her bestseller in Ireland but also in the rest of the world. Being also a producer, she created and
produced series of the American television comedy Samantha Who?. She is one of the most successful writers of the
world. Her novels were published in 46 countries and were sold more than 13
million copies. Cecelia spend most part of her time writing and she
periodically donates in charitable aims sums that she gained from the author’s
rights.[2]
The Irish author wrote her first novel when she was
21 and she got her inspiration while she was searching for a job after
finishing the College and when she had to finish the final paper. She came up the
idea for the novel P.S I Love You.
Cecelia was encouraged by her mother and she declared that the writing became
part from her life, she felt comfortable writing and she wrote night and day. As she began writing she couldn’t stop and she
sent some chapters to an editor agent. Before she began to write Cecelia Ahern
was member of a band and participated at Eurovision; she loved to dance and
sing. She has always new ideas and she also writes short prose and creates TV
shows. There are many people that have always something to object, but Ahern
said that for her is more important the joy that she feels while writing and
creating.[3] Though
being part from television industry, the author declared that she didn’t
participate to the movie production of her first novel P.S I Love You. Due to this movie she started the affinity with the
division of comedy creation of the ABC net and Ahern created a show for them.
Cecelia Ahern admitted that it was very pleasant for her to work in television
due to the public eye contact and she tried to be creative giving them ideas
for 100 episodes. [4]
In her writings, Ahern is inspired from her personal
life. After she gave birth to her children she wrote a book in which the
character had a very disordered life and tries to find herself. Ahern’s
children inspired her, before having them Cecelia also had a disordered life
and she didn’t know what she wanted. She also declared that she likes to write
her novels with the pen and then she rewrites the novel on the computer; she
considers it like a process of editing before showing it to other persons. Some
critics consider that romantic literature is a sort of second division, but in
Cecelia Ahern’s opinion every kind of literature represents a manner of telling
a story. Cecelia Ahern’s heroines are not helpless women that need to be saved
by a man. Her characters try to find themselves and thus, her books answer to
questions such as ‘Who are you?’ and ‘What do you want?’ Because things are
complex, complicated and not pink, her characters reckon with difficulties that
make them stronger.
Ahern writes one book per year and she said that
when she loses her passion for writing she will stop, she will not write
anymore. Her works are less in quantity, but they are high in quality as she
became very popular especially among young generation. She deals in her novels
with nowadays problems such as misunderstanding and difficulties in family, gap
between generations - problems between parents and their children, boys and
girls, women and men. Cecelia’s style of writing is simple and easy to read
such as you can read pages from the first time. Her writing style doesn’t make
part from any genre, the author herself said that because of the way in which
she writes, she would never say that she writes in a particular genre because
she didn’t try to fit into any genre. The Irish author also has as aim to
motivate young people to read, as in this century they are far from reading,
and to think while reading.[5]
List of Works:
-‘P.S I Love You’ (2002)
-‘Where Rainbows End’
(2004)
-‘If You Could See Me
Now’ (2005)
-‘A Place Called Here’
(2006)
-‘Thanks For The
Memories’ (2008)
-‘The Gift’ (2008)
-‘The Book Of
Tomorrow’ (2009)
-‘The Time of my Life
(2011)
-‘One Hundred Names’
(2012)
-‘How To Fall in Love
(2013)
-‘There’s No Place
Like Here’
-‘Rosie Dunne’
-‘Girl in the Mirror / The Memory Maker (2010)
-‘Every Year’
-‘Mr. Whippy’
·
Television work: -‘Samantha Who?
·
Film adaptations: -‘P.S I Love You
(2007)
-‘Where Rainbows End’ (2014)[6]
[1] Cecelia Ahern,
The Time of my life, HarperCollins, 2013 (cover)
About Cecelia
Ahern, http://www.jacketflap.com/cecelia-ahern/167194, 20.03.2014
[2] About Cecelia Ahern, http://www.jacketflap.com/cecelia-ahern/167194, 20.03.2014
[3] Interviu
Cecelia Ahern: Atunci când îmi voi pierde dragostea pentru scris mă voi
opri, http://www.agerpres.ro/cultura/2013/10/04/interviu-cecelia-ahern-atunci-cand-imi-voi-pierde-dragostea-pentru-scris-ma-voi-opri-14-14-19, 20.03.2014
[5] Interviu
Cecelia Ahern: Atunci când îmi voi pierde dragostea pentru scris mă voi
opri, http://www.agerpres.ro/cultura/2013/10/04/interviu-cecelia-ahern-atunci-cand-imi-voi-pierde-dragostea-pentru-scris-ma-voi-opri-14-14-19, 20.03.2014
The
creativity of Cecelia Ahern in the world literature, http://www.group-global.org/en/publication/view/7342, 20.03.2014
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