Orna Ní Choileáin

Writer

OrnaNí Choileáin

Short stories for adults. Comic vampires for young readers. Picture books for children. And a novel for anyone learning Irish.

See the booksAbout Orna
Orna Ní Choileáin walking on a mountainside under a blue sky and white clouds.

Twelve books

From storm skies to vampire nights, from cities to farmyards. Pick one.

All the books

Four worlds

Orna writes for readers of every age, and each world has its own flavour.

Recognition

Some of the prizes and shortlists her writing has earned.

  1. 2020Gradam Réics CarlóShortlistedNeansaí ar an bhFeirm
  2. 2019Gradam Réics CarlóShortlistedSpéirling
  3. 2015Oireachtas na Gaeilge Literary Competitions: Fiction for Young People (13–15)WonI measc Vaimpírí
  4. 2014Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, Irish-language Book of the YearShortlistedSciorrann an tAm
  5. 2014Oireachtas na Gaeilge Literary Competitions: Fiction for Young People (9/10–12)Won‘An Béaldath’

All awards

Orna Ní Choileáin by the sea in Dublin Bay, with the Poolbeg chimneys in the distance.

The writer

Orna learned Irish herself, and her writing grew out of traditional music and the storytelling in its songs.

Read her biography