Awards

2023–2021

International Dublin Literary Award
LONGLISTED: Burntcoat

National Book Critics Circle Award (US)
FINALIST: Burntcoat

2020

BBC National Short Story Award
WINNER: The Grotesques

2018–2017

Edge Hill Short Story Prize
SHORTLISTED: Madame Zero

East Anglian Book Awards
WINNER: Madame Zero

2015

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
SHORTLISTED: The Wolf Border

2013

BBC National Short Story Award
WINNER: Mrs Fox

2012

Portico Prize
WINNER: The Beautiful Indifference

Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
SHORTLISTED: The Beautiful Indifference

Edge Hill Short Story Prize
WINNER: The Beautiful Indifference

2010

Portico Prize
WINNER: How to Paint a Dead Man

Man Booker Prize
LONGLISTED: How to Paint a Dead Man

2009–2007

International Dublin Literary Award
LONGLISTED: The Carhullan Army

Arthur C. Clarke Award
SHORTLISTED: The Carhullan Army

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
WINNER: The Carhullan Army

James Tiptree Jr. Award
WINNER: The Carhullan Army

2004

Orange Prize for Fiction
LONGLISTED: The Electric Michelangelo

Man Booker Prize
SHORTLISTED: The Electric Michelangelo

2003

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
WINNER: Haweswater

Betty Trask Prize and Awards
WINNER: Haweswater

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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