Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. In 2017, Conversations with Friends was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and Rooney was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2018, Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, won the Costa Novel Award and the Encore Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Rooney was the editor of The Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019-20. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the television adaptation of Normal People, which was broadcast on the BBC in 2020.