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'The best young writer in Britain' - Bookseller, 2010. | Sarah Hall Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and a MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. In 2004, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), and the Prix Femina Etranger, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, The Carhullan Army, was published in 2007, and won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, a Lakeland Book of the Year prize, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Award. The Carhullan Army was listed as one of The Times 100 Best Books of the Decade. Her fourth novel, How To Paint A Dead Man, was published in 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her first collection of short stories, titled The Beautiful Indifference, was published by Faber & Faber in November 2011. Finished copies of The Beautiful Indifference, are now available from Faber & Faber. Please contact 'When you listen to something like that, there's no doubting the power of fiction to get to the grim heart of things.' Val McDermid, commenting on Butcher's Perfume on Radio 4's Pick of the Week. The story was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles Web Editor, recommends the collection here: www.foyles.co.uk Sarah Hall is an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University, and a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). She regularly tutors for the Faber Academy, the Arvon Foundation, and has taught creative writing in a variety of establishments in the UK and abroad. She currently lives in Norwich. |
Latest News: Sarah is delighted to announce that HarperCollins US will be continuing to publish her work in America. The Beautiful Indifference will be published in winter 2012/spring 2013, and her new novel will be published shortly after. The Beautiful Indifference makes the Foyles top ten books of 2011. Sarah was on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Friday 2nd December. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/womans-hour Sarah discussed The Beautiful Indifference with Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4's Open Book on 20th November: www.bbc.co.uk The collection was featured on Radio 4's Saturday Review program on 5th November. Listen Again: www.bbc.co.uk Sarah presented a two-part science-fiction documentary, called Cat Women of the Moon. It was repeated on Radio 4 in December 2011. |
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