In the late 1980s Meade wrote and directed a number of his own plays for the Strand Theatre in Dublin.
His books have been translated into 29 languages, including Swedish, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and Turkish.
His work The Second Messiah was published in English in summer 2011, by Simon & Schuster in New York.
Meade divides his time between Ireland, and on occasion, the USA.
He was one of the Irish delegates at the European Writers Conference in Istanbul in 2010.