National Author's Day

Today in some countries national author's are celebrated. Who would  be the national author I would like to be celebrated?The first name which immediately comes to mind is Ruth Dudley Edwards as she is a crime fiction writer but she is also a historian and biographer, Then there is Maeve Binchy, who was a fiction writer but it was her column with the Irish Times on a Saturday which had me hooked.What about Sara Breen and  Emer McLysaght?  Or perhaps A. O'Connor, the author of "The House"  (please see blog post "The Start of a Book Series" for a review)?Eilís Dillon, John B. Keane, Brendan Behan or Frank O'Connor? these authors bring me right back to my childhood together with Patricia Lynch.I would find it so difficult to choose just one author to celebrate National Author's Day if we indeed we did celebrate it in Ireland. However, I know I will not be able to sleep until I have found some books written by these authors and reread them. The difficulty is which one?So who would you recommend if you were celebrating National Author's Day?