Sally Rooney

Irish novelist whose fiction examines intimacy, class and power among young adults. Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, she studied English at Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected a scholar and was the top-ranked speaker at the 2013 European Universities Debating Championships. Her debut, Conversations with Friends, appeared in 2017. Normal People (2018), following Connell and Marianne from school in County Sligo to Trinity, won the Costa Novel Award and was adapted for television in 2020. Later novels are Beautiful World, Where Are You and Intermezzo. Normal People was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

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