Niamh Sharkey is an author and illustrator of children’s picturebooks.

Life

Sharkey started out as freelance illustrator and designer in

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after graduating with a degree in visual communication from the Dublin College of Marketing and Design. She was living in

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when she illustrated her first full colour picture book. Since then she has gone on to be Laureate na nÓg in Ireland as well as win multiple awards including the

Mother Goose Award The Mother Goose Award was an award annually presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration." It was inaugurated in 1979 and last awarded in 1999. Sponsored by Books for Children booksellers, award winners receive ...

, The Bisto Book of the Year and the Junior Book of the Year award at The

Irish Book Awards The Irish Book Awards are Irish literary awards given annually to books and authors in various categories. In 2018 An Post took over sponsorship of the awards from Bord Gais Energy. It is the only literary award supported by all-Irish bookstores. ...

. In 2019 Sharkey won the 2019 Children’s Books Ireland/Tyrone Guthrie Centre bursary. Her creation Henry Hugglemonster has been turned into an animated preschool series for

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. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Sharkey is a member of Illustrators Ireland.

Bibliography

* On The Road With Mavis And Marge * Cinderella * I'm A Happy Hugglewug * Santasaurus * The Ravenous Beast * Tales From Old Ireland * Jack And The Beanstalk * The Gigantic Turnip * Tales of Wisdom & Wonder * Irish Legends For The Very Young

References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharkey, Niamh 21st-century Irish women writers 21st-century Irish writers Irish children's writers Irish women children's writers Year of birth missing (living people) Irish illustrators Irish women illustrators Living people Laureates na nÓg