Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer, born in 1965 in Wexford, Ireland, is an Irish writer of children's and young adult fiction and a former primary school teacher. Artemis Fowl, published by Puffin from 2001, made his name: the story of a teenage criminal mastermind and the fairy police, it has been translated into more than forty languages and continued in the spin-off trilogy The Fowl Twins. He also wrote Half Moon Investigations, Airman and the W.A.R.P. trilogy, and in 2009 And Another Thing..., the sixth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel. He was Ireland's Children's Laureate from 2014 to 2016.