Awards

Novels

  • Haweswater

    • WINNER: Commonwealth Writers Prize – Best First Novel

    • WINNER: Society of Authors Betty Trask Award

    • WINNER: Lakeland Book of the Year

  • The Electric Michelangelo

    • Shortlisted: Man Booker Prize

    • Shortlisted: Commonwealth Writers Prize

    • Shortlisted: Prix Femina Étranger

    • Longlisted: Orange Prize for Fiction

  • The Carhullan Army (Daughters of the North, USA)

    • WINNER: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

    • WINNER: James Tiptree Jr. Award

    • WINNER: Lakeland Book of the Year prize

    • Shortlisted: Arthur C. Clarke Award

    • Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award

    • Listed in The Times “100 Best Books of the Decade”

  • How to Paint a Dead Man

    • WINNER: Portico Prize for Fiction

    • Longlisted: Man Booker Prize

  • The Wolf Border

    • WINNER: Cumbria Life Culture Awards – “Writer of the Year”

    • Shortlisted: Southbank Sky Arts Awards

    • Shortlisted: James Tate Memorial Black Prize

  • Burntcoat

    • Shortlisted: Southbank Sky Arts Award

    • Shortlisted: The National Book Critics Circle Awards, Fiction category

Short Story Collections

  • The Beautiful Indifference

    • WINNER: Portico Prize for Fiction

    • WINNER: Edge Hill Short Story Prize

    • Shortlisted: Frank O’Connor International Story Award

    • Shortlisted: The Butcher’s Perfume – BBC National Short Story Award

  • Madame Zero

    • WINNER: Mrs Fox – BBC National Short Story Award

    • WINNER: Story Goodnight Nobody – O. Henry Prize

    • WINNER: East Anglian Book of the Year – Fiction category

    • WINNER: Edge Hill Prize – Readers prize category

    • Shortlisted: Edge Hill Prize

    • Shortlisted: Evie – Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award

  • Sudden Traveller

    • WINNER: The Grotesques – BBC National Short Story Award

    • FINALIST: The Grotesques – ASME Award for Fiction

    • Shortlisted: James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    • Shortlisted: Edge Hill Prize

    • Shortlisted: Sudden Traveller – BBC National Short Story Award (2018)

Other Career Awards and Honours

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

  • Fellow of Civitella Ranieri Foundation

  • Honorary Doctor of Letters for outstanding contribution to literature, Lancaster University

  • Honorary fellowships: Aberystwyth University, University of Cumbria

  • EM Forster Award – American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • Named one of Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists”

Sarah Hall

Books

Helm. August 2025.

About

Sarah Hall is one of the UK’s most talented authors. Twice nominated for Man-Booker Prize, the first and only writer to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice, she has written 10 highly acclaimed novels and short story collections.

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