Patricia Scanlan

Irish writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIrish writer
PlacesIreland
isWriter Novelist
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Female
Birth12 November 1956, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Age68 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

Patricia Scanlan (born 1956) is an Irish novelist of over 20 books.

Life and work

Scanlan was born in Dublin where she still lives, she was a Dublin City librarian for 17 years. While she was working, Scanlan was also writing her first novel because she was short of money. That book was published in 1992. Since then she has published 19 novels, short stories, poems and edited Anthologies. She is based in Clontarf.

Scanlan is the creator of the Open Door Series for adult literacy and teaches creative writing to secondary school age girls.

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