Children's Fiction
Panel
This panel will have children science-fiction fantasy writer Frances Hardinge and is joined by children's author Oisin McGann. Both will do a short reading from their work and will end with a Question and Answer session.
Oisin McGann
Born in Dublin 1973, Oisín McGann spent his childhood there and in Drogheda, County Louth. He studied at Ballyfermot Senior College and Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design, and went on to work in illustration, design and film animation, later moving to London to work as an art director and copy writer in advertising.
He now lives back in Ireland and works full time as an author and illustrator. He has written and illustrated numerous books for young children, including the Mad Grandad series, The Forbidden Files series, and two short retellings of Irish legends, The Goblin of Tara and The Evil Eye. He has also produced seven novels; The Gods And Their Machines, The Harvest Tide Project, Under Fragile Stone, Small-Minded Giants, Ancient Appetites and Strangled Silence, as well as his latest novel, The Wisdom of Dead Men. He is currently working on a number of new projects.