Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney, born in Ireland in 1991, is an Irish writer. She studied politics and literature at Trinity College Dublin. Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was published in 2017 and was shortlisted for, among others, the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Rooney received the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. Her second novel, Normal People, was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the Costa Novel Award, the An Post Irish Novel of the Year Award, and British Book Awards. The novel was adapted into a television series, with Rooney contributing to the scripts. Beautiful World, Where Are You is her third novel.