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Anita Notaro

あにた・のたろ

Anita Notaro

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1955-09-14 (Dublin, Ireland)
Died
2014-11-26 (Dublin, Ireland) age 59
Nationality
Ireland
Languages
English
Residence History
Dublin, Ireland → Brittas, Ireland

Career

Occupations
TV producer, TV director, journalist, writer
Active Years
1983-2014
Affiliations
RTÉ, BBC, Channel 4

Awards

Popular Fiction Book of the Year
2008
Work: Take a Look at Me Now
Category: Popular Fiction
Organization: An Post Irish Book Awards
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Take a Look at Me Now

2007 Contemporary Fiction

Popular fiction novel.

Back After the Break

2003 Contemporary Fiction

Behind the Scenes

2004 Contemporary Fiction

The WWW Club

2007 Contemporary Fiction

No Ordinary Love

2010 Contemporary Fiction

A Moment Like This

2012 Contemporary Fiction

Bibliography

  • Back After the Break
  • Behind the Scenes
  • The WWW Club
  • Take a Look at Me Now
  • No Ordinary Love
  • A Moment Like This

Health

  • cancer
    2005
    Continued writing despite diagnosis
  • frontotemporal dementia
    2011-2014
    Condition worsened, returned to Dublin

Legacy

TV producer and director at RTÉ for 16 years, directed the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, and popular fiction writer who won Popular Fiction Book of the Year in 2008.

Trivia

  • Second female director of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993
  • Daughter of Irish mother and Irish/Italian father