Novelist
Maggie O'Farrell
Northern Irish novelist of Hamnet, about the death of Shakespeare's son, and of the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Born in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
- Born
- 1972-05-27, Coleraine, Northern IrelandA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1972-05-27, Coleraine, Northern Ireland · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Londonthe zone used then
Europe/LondonThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 6°14′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 28°13′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Taurus | 26°12′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 4°44′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Cancer | 9°31′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 6°44′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Gemini | 9°27′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Libra | 14°28′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 3°49′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 29°21′ | Retrograde |
Maggie O'Farrell is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Maggie O'Farrell was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.