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Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen", IPA: [oʊɪn])(born May 14, 1965) is an Irish author. He is most famous for having written the Artemis Fowl series, The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and his new book, Half Moon Investigations. May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman) is the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. ...
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Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ...
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Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. ...
The Wish List is a book written by Eoin Colfer. ...
‘The Supernaturalist’, by Eoin Colfer (author of the ‘Artemis Fowl’ series) is a children’s science-fiction novel (influenced in many ways by film noir and other predecessors of the cyberpunk science fiction movement, resulting in what could be termed a children’s cyberpunk novel). ...
Half Moon Investigations is a novel by the celebrated Irish author Eoin Colfer (Eoin is pronounced Owen). It was released in United States in April 2006 while it will be released in U.K and Ireland on 1st June 2006. ...
Life
Eoin Colfer grew up in Wexford, Ireland, along with his four brothers, Paul, Eamon, Donal, and Niall. He first developed a passion for writing in primary school, reading Viking books inspired by his history lessons at the time. His father was a primary school teacher, and as an artist and historian. His mother was a drama teacher. In 1986, Colfer became a Primary School teacher, but continued to write in his free time. Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman) is the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. ...
After leaving school he got his degree from Dublin University and qualified as a primary school teacher, returning to work in Wexford. He married in 1991 and he and his wife spent about 4 years working in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. His first book, Benny and Omar, was published in 1998, based on his experiences in Tunisia. It has since been translated into many languages. In 2001 the first Artemis Fowl book was published and he was able to resign from teaching and concentrate fully on writing. He now lives in Ireland with his wife and 2 children. The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ...
Benny and Omar is the first book in the Benny series, by Eoin Colfer, a author most famous for his Artemis Fowl series. ...
Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. ...
He says, "I will keep writing until people stop reading or I run out of ideas. Hopefully neither of these will happen anytime soon. ". [citation needed]
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