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About the Author
Patricia Forde is from Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. She has published several books and written plays and television series as well as four novels for children with Little Island Books. She has worked as a writer on both English and Irish language soap operas. In another life, she was a primary school teacher and the artistic director of Galway Arts Festival.
Her first novel The Wordsmith (published in North America as The List) was published to great critical acclaim in 2015. It has since been published in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Russia, Turkey, Lithuania and the Netherlands. It won a White Raven Award from the International Youth Library, is an American Library Association Notable Book for Children in the United States, and was shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year Award in Ireland.
Patricia is married to Padraic and has two grown up children. She still lives in Galway, her favourite city in the world. You can visit her at www.patriciaforde.com.
She is currently Ireland’s seventh Laureate na nÓg.
Praise for The Wordsmith
“This books is important.”
- The Guardian
Publisher: Little Island Press
Date Published: 1 July 2025
Paperback, 256pages
ISBN: 9781915071941
