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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. The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012 and the Edge Hill short story prize, it was also short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Prize. '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 has judged a number of prestigious literary awards and prizes. She tutors for the Faber Academy, The Guardian, the Arvon Foundation, and has taught creative writing in a variety of establishments in the UK and abroad. Sarah currently lives in Norwich, Norfolk. |
Latest News: Sarah Hall: sex, death and the short story www.theguardian.com/books www.thestar.com/entertainment/books Sarah's been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature: www.rsliterature.org RSL welcomes new Director Tim Robertson, he cites Sarah as one of his 'literary lodestars' www.rsliterature.org Sarah has a short story called 'One in Four' coming up in the RA Magazine: www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine Sarah was a judge for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 Congratulations to Max Porter: www.theguardian.com/books The Wolf Border has been short listed for the Sky South Bank Show's Literature Award: www.telegraph.co.uk James Tait Black shortlist: The Wolf Border is shortlisted in the Fiction category. www.theguardian.com/books Sarah will be appearing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, in May: www.nnfestival.org.uk Mumsnet, March Book of the Month: The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall www.mumsnet.com/books/bookclub Sarah has contributed a short story to a new anthology, Reader, I Married Him edited by Tracy Chevalier. www.harpercollins.co.uk The Australian: Best Books of the Year: www.theaustralian.com.au In the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2015 Sarah was awarded Writer of the Year for 'A powerful depiction of several competing versions of Cumbria’. Find out more... Sarah is one of the judges for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 shortlist announced: www.booktrust.org.uk www.theguardian.com/books Sarah's new novel, The Wolf Border published April in the UK and June in the US. Find out more... www.faber.co.uk The book will also be adapted for Radio 4, Book At Bedtime, week commencing 18th May www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Sarah appeared on Radio 3, Private Passions - 29th March, listen again: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Sarah was the 2014 recipient of the E M Forster Award, announced in March by the The American Academy of Arts and Letters. www.convilleandwalsh.com Sarah's short story collection The Beautiful Indifference recently got an honourable mention in an interview with James Salter for Guernica magazine. www.guernicamag.com For information on our Privacy & Cookie Policy, please click here |
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