Anita Notaro

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Anita Notaro
Born14 September 1955
Dublin, Ireland
Died26 November 2014 (2014-11-27) (aged 59)
Dublin, Ireland

Anita Notaro (14 September 1955 – 26 November 2014), was a TV producer and director that worked for RTÉ for sixteen years. She directed the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 held in the Irish town of Millstreet and became the second female director for the contest after Yvonne Littlewood, BBC Television producer and director that organized the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 at London's Television Centre. [1] [2] [3] She was also a journalist and the writer of Back After the Break, Behind the Scenes and The WWW Club. [4]

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Biography

Anita Notaro was born on 14 September 1955, in Dublin, Ireland to an Irish mother and an Irish/Italian father. She had younger three sisters. Notaro became a journalist and got a job by winning an open competition for programming assistants in 1983. She worked for RTÉ where she went on to be a TV producer and director. In 1997, she directed a Rory Gallagher concert recorded at the Cork Opera House. She was also responsible for directing The Eurovision Song Contest and the Irish General Election before she took redundancy to try out her writing career. Notaro returned from time to time to direct several episodes of the Irish soap, Fair city. Notaro also worked for the BBC and Channel 4. She continued writing despite a cancer diagnosis in 2005. In 2008 Notaro won the Popular Fiction Book of the Year. However, in 2011 Notaro was given a diagnosis of front-temporal dementia. Notaro was married to Gerry McGuinness from 2004 and although they moved to their dream home in Brittas they mostly lived in Dublin where they returned when Notaro became unwell. She died in Dublin on 26 November 2014. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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References and sources

  1. ↑ "Millstreet 1993 - Eurovision Song Contest" . Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "London 1963 - Eurovision Song Contest" . Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "Yvonne Littlewood - IMDb" . Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Irish Author Anita Notaro Has Passed Away". 26 November 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Irish Author Anita Notaro Has Passed Away". Her.ie. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. ↑ "TV producer and novelist characterised by her generosity to colleagues". The Irish Times. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Gittens, Geraldine (26 November 2014). "Irish author Anita Notaro dies after long illness". Independent.ie. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Caden, Sarah (14 May 2012). "My wife Anita - A living loss". Independent.ie. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "Author and director Anita Notaro dies". RTE.ie. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "An Post Irish Book Awards » RIP Anita Notaro". An Post Irish Book Awards. 30 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  11. ↑ Notaro, Anita. "Anita Notaro". Penguin Books UK. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

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