Beidh an t-údar Myra Zepf faoi agallamh ag Máirín Ní Ghadhra ar chlár na seachtaine seo. Ba í Máire an chéad Chomhalta le Scríbhneoireacht do Pháistí a ceapadh sna Sé Chontae, agus bhí sí lonnaithe in Ionad Seamus Heaney in Ollscoil na Ríona sa ról sin ó 2017 – 2019 agus é mar aidhm aici páistí a spreagadh le bheith ag léamh agus ag scríobh go cruthaitheach. I mbliana, thug Myra léi Gradam Réics Carló dá leabhar An Féileacán agus an Rí, agus thug sí an gradam do Leabhar na Bliana do Pháistí KPMG/CBI na bhaile léi freisin i 2020 do Nóinín. Labhrann sí le Máirín inniu faoina cuid oibre.
Author Myra Zepf is Máirín Ní Ghadhra’s guest today. Myra Zepf was the first ever Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University in Belfast from 2017 – 2019. Her work there was to provide a voice for children’s literature in Northern Ireland and promote an interest in reading and writing from an early age by encouraging creativity and engagement with books with children of all ages. In 2020, she won Gradam Réics Carló award for her book An Féileacán agus an Rí, and also took home the KPMG/CBI Children’s Book of the Year for Nóinín. She talks to Máirín about her work today.