Eoin Colfer

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-27

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author born May 14, 1965, in Wexford, Ireland, one of five siblings in a family shaped by a teacher-historian father and a drama-teacher mother, which fostered an early love of theatre. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a bachelor's degree in Education and worked as a primary school teacher before writing full-time, spending four years teaching abroad in Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Tunisia, experiences that later influenced his storytelling. Colfer is best known for the Artemis Fowl series, eleven novels published between 2001 and 2012 following a boy-genius criminal mastermind, which sold over 21 million copies in 44 languages. His other works include The Wish List, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernatural­ist, Airman, and Highfire, and he wrote And Another Thing..., the sixth novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, in 2009. More than half his books have reached the New York Times bestseller list. He has won the British Children's Book of the Year, the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and Germany's Children's Book of the Year in 2025. From 2014 to 2016, Colfer served as Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's Children's Laureate.

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Books

• Artemis Fowl (2001) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident (2002) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code (2003) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2004) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (2005) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox (2008) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex (2010) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon
• Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian (2012) · Artemis Fowl Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 8 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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