Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney (born February 20, 1991 in Castlebar ) is an Irish writer living in Dublin . Her first work Conversations with Friends was published in 2017. A German translation followed in 2019 under the title Talks with Friends . Her second novel, Normal People , was published in 2018 and has received numerous awards.

Life

Sally Rooney grew up in a Marxist family in Castlebar . She has an older brother and a younger sister. Her mother runs a cultural center, while her father retired after the privatization of the state-owned communications company Telecom Éireann .

In 2009 Rooney began studying English at Trinity College Dublin . Your application for a secondary degree in sociology was rejected. After completing a bachelor's degree, she began a master's degree in political science , which she dropped out. Instead, she graduated with a thesis on Captain America and American post-9/11 politics in American literature .

Create

At the age of 15, Rooney completed her first novel, which she describes today as "absolute rubbish".

In 2013 she took part in the European Universities Debating Championship in Manchester . She has since published several short stories.

Conversations with Friends

Rooney completed the novel while studying for a Masters in American Literature. After the literary agent Tracy Bohan became aware of her through an essay she had published, seven publishers bid for the rights. The British company Faber & Faber published it in June 2017 . Conversations with Friends has been translated into more than 10 languages.

Conversations with Friends was nominated for the 2018 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2018 Folio Prize. The book was on the longlist of the Man Booker Prize and on the shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award .

Normal people

Rooney's second novel, Normal People , was published by Faber & Faber in 2018. It emerged from an in-depth examination of the story of two characters from their short story At the Clinic . The German-language edition was published in August 2020 under the title Normale Menschen .

The work received the Costa Book Award in the “Novel” category in 2018 and was named “Book of the Year” (Fiction) at the Irish Book Awards and the “ Waterstones Book of the Year”. In 2019 Normal People received the Encore Award for "Best Second Novel" .

A 12-part television series based on this novel has been prepared as a co-production by BBC3 and the US online video portal Hulu since 2019 and premiered on BBC3 on April 26 and on Hulu in the USA on April 29, 2020.

Other works

In March 2017, her short story Mr Salary was nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Rivate Bank Short Story Award.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Katharina Laszlo: What is it like to be young today? . Review, in: FAZ, June 17, 2019, p. 9

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Lauren Collins: Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head. In: The New Yorker. December 31, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Paula Cocozza: 'I have an aversion to failure': Sally Rooney feels the buzz of her debut novel. In: The Guardian. May 24, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Meet the new faces of fiction for 2017. In: The Guardian. June 4, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Conversations with Authors: Sally Rooney talks to The Bookseller | The Bookseller. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2018 Shortlist Shows International Breadth - and Confirms the Quality of British Wirting. March 27, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alex Clar: Conversations with Sally Rooney: the 27-year-old novelist defining a generation . Interview, in: The Guardian, August 25, 2018
  7. ^ Sally Rooney on sex, power and the art of being normal. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Love story Normal People is Waterstones' book of the year , bbc.com, November 29, 2018, accessed July 10, 2019
  9. ↑ Sally Rooney ... at rsliterature.org, accessed on August 28, 2019 (pdf)
  10. ^ Normal People. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Carolin Würfel: Why should she earn more than $ 16,100 a year? In: The time . July 18, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 , p. 39 .
  12. ^ Sunday Times Short Story Award shortlists Lambert and Rooney | The Bookseller. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rooney, Sally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Castlebar