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Printz Honor for excellence in literature written for young adults.

and the American Library Association's Michael L. Her second book, Asking For It, was a number-one bestseller in Ireland and won several awards, including being named Irish Times Book of the Month in September 2015, Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2015, the honour prize for fiction at the CBI awards 2016. The Guardian called O'Neill "the best YA fiction writer alive today". The success of her debut, originally published as a novel for young adults, led Quercus to issue a new edition in 2015 aimed at a general audience. She has since won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards the Children's Books Ireland Eilís Dillon Award for a First Children's Book and The Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize 2015. Upon returning to Ireland in 2011, O'Neill began her first novel Only Ever Yours, which was published in 2014. She was born in 1985 and grew up in Clonakilty, in West Cork, Ireland. Louise O'Neill is an Irish author who writes primarily for young adults. 2015 Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year (Senior): Asking For It.2014 Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year: Only Ever Yours.Killer Content is also working on a film adaptation of the Brian Selznick novel “Wonderstruck” and a pilot for Amazon, “Z,” based on the Therese Ann Fowler book “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Said Two Brass Brads executive director Rachel Gould: “There is the potential to build a powerful engagement and impact campaign around the release of the film that will ignite a conversation, call the audience to action and leave a lasting impression.”

“Today’s young people struggle to define themselves on their own terms under the harsh glare of the information age Klieg lights.” “’Only Ever Yours,’ while dystopian in genre, may be closer to today’s reality than adults recognize,” said Becker. Killer Content is working with the newly launched nonprofit Two Brass Brads to finance “Only Ever Yours.” Two Brass Brads is described as non-profit organization that creates “socially relevant” content that will be released in tandem with activist campaigns and educational efforts.Īmong the org’s supporters is Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim, whose Hoerle-Guggenheim art gallery is hosting a book party for O’Neill in New York on Wednesday.