Author, artist is book award winner

Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has won a major award for her expertly crafted children’s novel Hagwitch.

As well as the 24th Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award, Ms Fitzpatrick won the honour award for fiction.

Ms Fitzpatrick, from Dublin but now living in Wicklow, is no stranger to the leading children’s book awards — she won the CBI honour award for fiction with a previous novel, Dark Warning.