Máire Zepf has written 16 books for children, from picture books to a YA verse novel. Winner of the KPMG/CBI Children’s Book of the Year, 5 LAI Children’s Book Awards and 2 international White Ravens among many others, her books appear in 10 languages worldwide. Her ‘Rita’ series of picture books with illustrator Mr. Ando has recently been adapted for television. She is also writer and co-creator of the animated TV series ‘Lí Ban’ with Paper Owl Films. The Co. Down author was the first Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at QUB.
Máire Zepf
