Eoin Colfer
Författare till Artemis Fowl
Om författaren
Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, Ireland on May 14, 1965. After taking a three-year degree course in Dublin, he qualified as a primary teacher in 1986. Returning to Wexford he began teaching in a local primary school by day and wrote at night. In 1991, he left Ireland and spent the next four years visa mer working in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. Resettling in Wexford after his arrival back in Ireland, he recommenced his teaching career, continuing his habit of writing after school. His first book, Benny and Omar, was published in October 1998. His other works include Benny and Babe, the O'Brien Flyers series, and the Artemis Fowl series. He became a full-time author following the success of Artemis Fowl. The Wish List won a Bisto Merit Award in 2001. In 2015 he won an Irish Book Award in the children's category with his title Imaginary Fred. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: Books 1-7 & The Files 251 exemplar
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6: Hexagonal Phase: BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation (2018) — Författare — 33 exemplar
A Fowl Tale 4 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: The Aztec Incident 1 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: The Galactic Adventure 1 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: Books 5-6 1 exemplar
The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World / The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth / The Legend of Spud Murphy (2017) 1 exemplar
The Mysterious Island 1 exemplar
Fowlin kaksoset saavat ansionsa mukaan 1 exemplar
Hannekes haar 1 exemplar
Don't Panic 1 exemplar
Ārtmīs fāvl va Grugān Gīrī 1 exemplar
LEPrecon [short story] 1 exemplar
ארטמיס פאול : המזימה של אופאל 1 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: Books 1-5 & The Files 1 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: Collision of the Worlds 1 exemplar
Artemis Fowl: Books 4-5 1 exemplar
Wooklet - Artemis Fowl 1 1 exemplar
Hinterher ist man immer tot 1 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1965-05-14
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Ireland
- Födelseort
- County Wexford, Ireland
- Bostadsorter
- Wexford, Ireland
- Utbildning
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Yrken
- teacher (Elementary or Primary school)
author - Relationer
- Colfer, Billy (father)
- Kort biografi
- Eoin Colfer (born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. In September 2008, Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing ..., which was published in October 2009. In October 2016, in a contract with Marvel Comics, he released Iron Man: The Gauntlet. He served as Laureate na nÓg (Ireland's Children's Laureate) between 2014 and 2016.
Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, Ireland. He attained worldwide recognition in 2001, when the first Artemis Fowl book was published and became a New York Times Best Seller, as did some sequels. Among his other popular works are Half Moon Investigations, The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and a series of Eoin Colfer's Legends. In January 2008, Colfer published a book titled Airman, another best-seller. To date, more than half of his books have reached the New York Times list at least once.
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Diskussioner
FF36: Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer i FF-Leesclub Forum (mars 2011)
Artemis Fowl : suitable for young children? i Children's Fiction (april 2008)
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- ISBN
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- 40
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