Máire Zepf has lined up some outstanding partners for Quotidian’s Children & Irish Language programme in the coming year!
Joining creative forces with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, National Museums of NI, Belfast City Council, Young at Art and Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich, she can’t wait to weave the threads of literature and heritage, strike a chord with musical story composition and welcome a brand new Poetry Jukebox to the party.
Watch this space!
About Máire Zepf
Máire Zepf has written 15 books for children, from picture books to a YA verse novel. Winner of the KPMG/CBI Children’s Book of the Year, 4 LAI Children’s Book Awards and 2 international White Ravens among many others, her books appear in 10 languages worldwide. The Co. Down author was the first Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at QUB. She is Artistic Director for Quotidian – Word on the Street. Máire loves eating crisps and sea-swimming (although not at the same time).
Is údar don aos óg í Máire Zepf. Tá cúig leabhar déag scríofa aici, idir phictiúrleabhair do na leitheoirí is óige, úrscéalta staire agus úrscéal véarsaíochta do dhéagóirí. Tá go leor duaiseanna bainte aici, ina measc Gradam Leabhar na Bliana de chuid Leabhair Pháistí Éireann, 4 chinn de Gradam Chumann Litearthachta na hÉireann agus White Raven faoi dhó. Tá a cuid leabhair aistrithe anois go 10 dteanga ar fud an domhain. Ceapadh Máire mar an chéad Comhalta le Scríbhneoireacht Páistí i dTuaisceart na hÉireann. Is Stiúrthóir Ealaíne í do Quotidian – Word on the Street. Is aoibhinn le Máire criospaí agus an snámh san fharraige (ach ní ag an am céanna).