Sally Rooney

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{{short description|Irish author}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Sally Rooney
|image = Sally Rooney.jpg
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|birth_name =
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|2|20|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Castlebar]], [[County Mayo]], Ireland
|occupation = Author<br />Screenwriter
|language = English
|education = [[Trinity College Dublin]]
|genre = Fiction
|notableworks = ''[[Conversations with Friends]]'' (2017)<br />''[[Normal People]]'' (2018) “Beautiful World, Where Are You “(2021)
|awards = 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
|signature = Sally Rooney Signature.svg
}}
'''Sally Rooney''' (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published three novels: ''[[Conversations with Friends]]'' (2017), ''[[Normal People]]'' (2018), and ''[[Beautiful World, Where Are You]]'' (2021). ''Normal People'' was adapted into a [[Normal People (TV series)|2020 television series]] by [[Hulu]] and the [[BBC]]. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost [[Millennials|millennial]] writers.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barry|first=Ellen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/europe/sally-rooney-ireland.html |title=Greeted as the First Great Millennial Author, and Wary of the Attention |work=The New York Times |date=31 August 2018|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/books/review/sally-rooney-normal-people-best-seller.html|title=Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' Debuts on the List at No. 3|first=Tina|last=Jordan|date=26 April 2019|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/at-28-sally-rooney-has-been-called-the-voice-of-her-generation-believe-the-hype/2019/04/16/7e1de312-6050-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html|title=At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype.|first=Lauren|last=Sarazen|date=16 April 2019|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Rooney was born in [[Castlebar]], [[County Mayo]],<ref name=Armitstead>{{cite web|last=Armitstead|first=Claire|date=2 December 2018|title=Sally Rooney: 'I don't respond to authority very well'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/02/sally-rooney-interview-dont-respond-authority-normal-people|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref> in 1991, and grew up there.<ref name = "Cocozza">{{cite web|last=Cocozza|first=Paula|date=24 May 2017|title='I have an aversion to failure': Sally Rooney feels the buzz of her debut novel|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/24/sally-rooney-conversations-with-friends-interview-salinger-snapchat-generation|work=The Guardian|access-date=5 June 2018}}</ref> Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for [[Telecom Éireann]] and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre.<ref name="Cocozza" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brockes|first=Emma|date=28 August 2021|title=Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: 'It doesn't seem to work in any real way for anyone'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/28/sally-rooney-hell-of-fame-normal-people|url-status=live|access-date=29 August 2021|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=31 December 2018|title=Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head|access-date=3 September 2021|work=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref> Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister.<ref name = "Cocozza"/> Rooney studied English at [[Trinity College Dublin]] (TCD), where she was [[List of Scholars of Trinity College Dublin|elected a scholar]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php? |title=List of Scholars |website=Scholars of Trinity College Dublin |publisher=TCD Life |access-date=2021-12-31}}</ref> She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in [[American literature]] instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013.<ref name="faber1">{{cite web|title=Sally Rooney|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/author/sally-rooney/|website=Faber|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> Rooney has described herself as a [[Marxism|Marxist]].<ref name="Sheaker">{{cite web|last=Sheahan|first=Fionnán|date=23 May 2020|title=It's Marianne's fault we can't get a government to satisfy Normal People|url=https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/its-mariannes-fault-we-cant-get-a-government-to-satisfy-normal-people-39228105.html|work=Irish Independent|access-date=23 May 2020|quote=The author of Normal People is a '''self-professed Marxist'''... her politics seeps through her writing. It's no accident the central protagonists of the book that has captured the nation's imagination are the rich girl living in the mansion and the poor boy whose mother works as her family's cleaner. The TV version glosses over the discussions around 'The Communist Manifesto' and the feminist bible 'The Golden Notebook'.}}</ref>

While attending Trinity College Dublin, Rooney was a university debater and eventually became the top debater at the [[European Universities Debating Championships]] in 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universitytimes.ie/2013/08/trinity-speakers-succeed-at-the-european-university-debating-championships/|title= Trinity speakers succeed at the European University Debating Championships|website= universitytimes.ie|access-date= May 14, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A New Kind of Adultery Novel|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/a-new-kind-of-adultery-novel|work=The New Yorker|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> later writing of the experience.<ref name="even-if-you-beat-me" /> Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role.<ref name="theguardian2">{{cite web|last1=Beckerman|first1=Hannah|last2=Clark|first2=Alex|last3=O'Keeffe|first3=Alice|last4=Kellaway|first4=Kate|last5=Sethi|first5=Anita|last6=Lewis|first6=Tim|last7=Parkinson|first7=Hannah Jane|last8=Cross|first8=Stephanie|last9=O'Kelly|first9=Lisa|date=22 January 2017|title=Meet the new faces of fiction for 2017 | Books|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/22/debut-novelists-2017-honeyman-underdown-rooney-ellwood-geary-knox-brooks-sudjic|work=The Guardian|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bentley|first=Jean|date=29 April 2020|title='Normal People' Author on the Pressure of Adapting Her Best-Selling Novel for Hulu|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/normal-people-author-pressure-adapting-her-best-selling-novel-hulu-1292353|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date= May 14, 2020}}</ref>

==Career==
===Early career===
Rooney completed her first novel—which she has described as "absolute trash"—at the age of 15.<ref name="theguardian1">{{cite web|last=Cocozza|first=Paula|date=24 May 2017|title= 'I have an aversion to failure': Sally Rooney feels the buzz of her debut novel'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/24/sally-rooney-conversations-with-friends-interview-salinger-snapchat-generation|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref> She began writing "constantly" in late 2014. She completed her debut novel, ''[[Conversations with Friends]]'', while studying for her master's degree in American literature. She wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months.<ref name="theguardian1"/>

In 2015, her essay "Even If You Beat Me", about her time as the "top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an agent, Tracy Bohan, of the [[Wylie Agency]], and Bohan contacted Rooney. Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids.<ref>{{cite web|last=Collins|first=Lauren|date=31 December 2018|title=Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head|work=The New Yorker |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=White|first=Hilary A.|date=28 May 2017|title=I hate Yeats...how has he become this emblem of literary Irishness?|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/i-hate-yeatshow-has-he-become-this-emblem-of-literary-irishness-35757310.html|website=Irish Independent|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Demolder|first=Kate|date=27 April 2020|title=The Sally Rooney Essay You Haven't Read|url=https://irishtatler.com/sally-rooney-essay|website=Irish Tatler|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>

<blockquote>She had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read... But I didn’t send her anything for ages... I don’t know why. I didn't want her to see this shoddy draft.<ref name="theguardian2"/></blockquote>

===''Conversations with Friends'' (2017)===
{{Main articles|Conversations with Friends}}
Rooney signed with Tracy Bohan of the Wylie Agency, and ''Conversations with Friends'' was subject to a seven-party auction for its publishing rights, which were eventually sold in 12 countries.<ref>{{cite web|last=Flock|first=Elizabeth|date=11 September 2019|title=Why writer Sally Rooney stopped tying up loose ends in 'Conversations With Friends'|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/why-writer-sally-rooney-stopped-tying-up-loose-ends-in-conversations-with-friends|work=[[PBS]]|access-date= May 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name="theguardian2"/> The novel was published in June 2017 by [[Faber and Faber]]. It was nominated for the 2018 Swansea University International [[Dylan Thomas]] Prize,<ref name="Pymm">{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/insight/conversation-sally-rooney-761456|title=Conversations with Authors: Sally Rooney talks to The Bookseller|date=29 March 2018|access-date=4 June 2018|author=Francesca Pymm|publisher=The Bookseller}}</ref> and the 2018 [[Folio Prize]], and won the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Announcing: the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 Shortlist|url=https://www.rathbonesfolioprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/EMBARGOED-Media-Release-Rathbones-Folio-Prize-shortlists-announced-FINAL.pdf|date=27 March 2018|access-date=4 June 2018|publisher=Folio Prize}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Code8 team|title=Sally Rooney - Young Writer of the Year Award|url=http://www.youngwriteraward.com/book/sally-rooney/|website=Young Writer Award|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>

In March 2017, her short story "Mr Salary" was shortlisted for the [[Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/lambert-and-rooney-sunday-times-short-story-award-shortlist-511446|title=Sunday Times Short Story Award shortlists Lambert and Rooney|author=Natasha Onwuemezi|date=20 March 2017|publisher=The Bookseller|access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref> In November 2017, Rooney was announced as editor of the Irish literary magazine ''[[The Stinging Fly]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Announcing our new editor…|url=https://stingingfly.org/news/announcing-new-editor/|website=[[The Stinging Fly]]|language=en-GB|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> She was a contributing writer to the magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=author: Sally Rooney|url=https://stingingfly.org/author/sally-rooney/|website=[[The Stinging Fly]]|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> She oversaw the magazine's two issues in 2018, before handing the editorship over to Danny Denton. She remains a contributing editor to the magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://stingingfly.org/about-us/|website=[[The Stinging Fly]]|language=en-GB|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>

In 2018, Rooney was announced as taking part in the [[Cúirt International Festival of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|date=6 March 2018|title=Sally Rooney, Daniel Woodrell and Bernard MacLaverty headline Cúirt festival|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sally-rooney-daniel-woodrell-and-bernard-maclaverty-headline-c%C3%BAirt-festival-1.3416974|work=The Irish Times|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>

===''Normal People'' (2018)===
{{Main articles|Normal People}}
Rooney's second novel, ''Normal People'', was published in September 2018, also by Faber & Faber.<ref>{{cite web|date=23 February 2018|title=Sally Rooney's second novel, ''Normal People'', due in September|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sally-rooney-s-second-novel-normal-people-due-in-september-1.3403083|work=The Irish Times|access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Normal People | Sally Rooney|url=https://granta.com/normal-people/|website=Granta|date=9 August 2018|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> The novel grew out of Rooney's exploration into the history between the two main characters of her short story "At the Clinic", which was first published in London-based literary magazine ''[[The White Review]]'' in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sally Rooney on sex, power and the art of being normal|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/09/sally-rooney-interview-normal-people-booker-prize-bbc-three-adaptation-conversations-with-friends|website=[[New Statesman]]|language=en|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=At the Clinic|url=https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/|website=The White Review|language=en-US|access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref> In July 2018, ''Normal People'' was longlisted for that year's [[Man Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Man Booker prize 2018 longlist – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/24/man-booker-prize-2018-longlist-in-pictures|work=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|date=23 July 2018|access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref> On 27 November 2018, the work won "Irish Novel of the Year" at the [[Irish Book Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Success for Lynn Ruane, Sally Rooney and Aislings everywhere at Irish Book Awards|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/awards-winners-4362303-Nov2018/|work=[[TheJournal.ie]]|date=27 November 2018|access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref> and was named [[Waterstones]]' Book of the Year for 2018.<ref name="Waterstones">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46372322|title=Love story named book of the year|date=29 November 2018|work=BBC News}}</ref> In January 2019, it won the [[Costa Book Awards|Costa Book Award]] (formerly the Whitbread) for the Novel category.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Anita|date=7 January 2019|title=Youngest ever Costa Book Prize winner: Sally Rooney claims victory following Booker 'snub'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/07/youngest-ever-costa-book-prize-winner-sally-rooney-claims-victory/|work=The Telegraph|access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Devers|first=A. N.|date=25 March 2019|title=Sally Rooney on Normal People, Conversations With Friends, and 19th Century Literature|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a26932708/sally-rooney-normal-people-interview/|website=Elle|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> It was longlisted for the 2019 [[Dylan Thomas Prize]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=31 January 2019|title=Dylan Thomas prize: teacher and nurse among 'starburst' of young talent|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/31/dylan-thomas-prize-sally-rooney-michael-donkor-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-sarah-perry|work=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> and the 2019 [[Women's Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Announcing the Women's Prize 2019 Longlist|url=https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/reading-room/news/announcing-the-womens-prize-for-fiction-2019-longlist|website=Women's Prize for Fiction|date=4 March 2019|access-date=4 March 2019}}</ref>

==== Television adaptations ====
The novel was made into a [[Normal People (TV series)|12-part series]] as a co-production of [[BBC Three]] and the online platform [[Hulu]], with filming taking place in Dublin and [[County Sligo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/04/29/a-faithful-careful-adaptation-of-sally-rooneys-normal-people |title=Abnormal TV - A faithful, careful adaptation of Sally Rooney's ''Normal People''|work=The Economist |date=29 April 2020|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> The series was directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald. [[Daisy Edgar-Jones]] and [[Paul Mescal]] played Marianne and Connell, respectively. The series was a critical success and earned four [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations including for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie|Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie]], [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special|Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series]], and [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special|Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Normal People nominated for four Emmy Awards in US|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/normal-people-nominated-for-four-emmy-awards-in-us-1.4315939|work=The Irish Times|access-date=28 February 2021}}</ref>

In February 2020, it was announced that the novel ''Conversations with Friends'' would also be made into a 12-episode [[BBC Three]]/[[Hulu]] miniseries.<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC announces adaptation of Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends, reuniting Lenny Abrahamson and Element Pictures|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/conversations-with-friends|website=[[BBC]]|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Sampson|first=Annabel|title=Everything you need to know about Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends TV adaption|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/conversations-with-friends-sally-rooney-tv-adaptation |website=Tatler|date=5 May 2020|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> It was also announced that the creative team behind ''[[Normal People (TV series)|Normal People]]'', director [[Lenny Abrahamson]] and co-writer [[Alice Birch]] would be working on this adaptation, too.<ref>{{cite web|last=Specter|first=Emma|date=12 May 2020|title=Everything We Know So Far About the Conversations With Friends TV Series|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/conversations-with-friends-tv-show-date-cast-news-spoilers|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lindsay|first=Kathryn|date=12 May 2020|title=Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends Is Following In Normal People's TV Footsteps|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9807635/sally-rooney-conversations-tv-series-announced|website=[[Refinery 29]]|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

===''Beautiful World, Where Are You'' (2021)===
{{Main|Beautiful World, Where Are You}}
In April 2019, the [[New York Public Library]]'s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced its 2019 class of fellows, which included Rooney. The press release stated, "she will be writing a new novel under the working title ''Beautiful World, Where Are You,'' examining aesthetics and political crisis."<ref>{{cite web|title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2019-2020 Fellows|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-23-2019/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center|website=The New York Public Library|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> The novel was published by [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] in the United States and by Faber in the UK and Ireland in September 2021.<ref>{{cite web|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|date=12 January 2021|title=Sally Rooney to Publish 'Beautiful World, Where Are You'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=12 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Cain|first=Sian|date=12 January 2021|title=New Sally Rooney novel to be published in September|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/12/new-sally-rooney-novel-to-be-published-in-september-beautiful-world-where-are-you|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=12 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=12 January 2021|title=Sally Rooney announces new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You|url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0112/1189262-sally-rooney-announces-new-novel-beautiful-world-where-are-you/|website=RTÉ|language=en}}</ref>

Rooney declined to have an Israeli publisher translate ''Beautiful World, Where Are You'' into Hebrew as part of her support for the [[Palestinians|Palestinian]]-led [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] (BDS) movement.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chilton|first=Louis|date=12 October 2021|title=Sally Rooney denies Israeli publisher’s request to print Hebrew translation|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/sally-rooney-israel-boycott-hebrew-b1936653.html|access-date=12 October 2021|work=The Independent|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Badshah|first=Nadeem|date=11 October 2021|title=Sally Rooney bans Hebrew translation in protest at Palestinian conflict|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sally-rooney-refused-hebrew-translation-of-beautiful-world-where-are-you-cbdxrb7zj|url-status=usurped|work=The Times|access-date=12 October 2021|issn=0140-0460|archive-url=https://archive.today/ftU0I|archive-date=11 October 2021}}</ref> In October 2021, Rooney stated that "The Hebrew-language translation rights to my new novel are still available, and if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement's institutional boycott guidelines, I will be very pleased and proud to do so".<ref name=Guardian20211012>{{Cite news|last=Knight|first=Lucy|date=12 October 2021|title=Sally Rooney turns down an Israeli translation on political grounds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/12/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you-israeli-publisher-hebrew|work=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref>

In retaliation, two Israeli bookshop chains announced a withdrawal of all of Rooney's titles from their shelfs in early November.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-11-05|title=Sally Rooney novels pulled from Israeli bookstores after translation boycott|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/05/sally-rooney-novels-pulled-from-israeli-bookstores-after-translation-boycott|access-date=2021-11-07|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Rooney's Israeli publisher said it would continue selling her titles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/sally-rooneys-israeli-publisher-keeps-selling-her-books-even-as-chains-shun-her/|title=Sally Rooney’s Israeli publisher keeps selling her books even as chains shun her|website=www.timesofisrael.com}}</ref> Subsequently, in a letter organized by Artists for Palestine UK, 70 writers and publishers including [[Kevin Barry (author)|Kevin Barry]], [[Rachel Kushner]], [[Geoff Dyer]], [[Pankaj Mishra]], [[Carmen Callil]] and [[Ahdaf Soueif]] said they supported Rooney’s decision.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/22/authors-back-sally-rooneys-boycott-of-an-israeli-publisher|title=Authors back Sally Rooney’s boycott of an Israeli publisher|date=22 November 2021|website=the Guardian}}</ref>

== Television ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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|2020 || ''[[Normal People (TV series)|Normal People]]'' || Writer / Executive producer || 12 episodes: [[Hulu]] & [[BBC Three]]
|-
|2022 || ''[[Conversations with Friends (TV series)|Conversations with Friends]]'' ||Executive producer || 12 episodes: Hulu & BBC Three
|-
|}

==Bibliography==
{{Expand list|date=April 2019}}

===Novels===
* {{cite book |title=[[Conversations with Friends]]|location=London|publisher=[[Faber and Faber]]|year=2017|isbn=9780571333127}}
* {{cite book |title=[[Normal People]] |location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2018|isbn=9780571334643}}
* {{cite book|title=[[Beautiful World, Where Are You]]|location=London|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2021|isbn=9780571365425}}

=== Short fiction ===
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|isbn= 9780992991579
|url-status= 
|access-date=2019-06-15
|last= Rooney
|first= Sally
|author-link= Sally Rooney
}}</ref>
* {{cite book |url= https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/
|date= September 2016
|title= At the Clinic
|volume= 18
|publisher= [[The White Review]]
|location= London
|isbn= 9780992756291
}}<ref>{{cite book |url= https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/
|date= September 2016
|title= At the Clinic
|volume= 18
|publisher= [[The White Review]]
|location= London
|isbn= 9780992756291
|url-status= 
|last= Rooney
|first= Sally
|author-link= Sally Rooney
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewhitereview.org/issue/issue-no-18/|title=Issue No. 18|website=The White Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-18}}</ref> Prototype of Marianne and Connell in later 2018 Normal People.
*{{cite web
|url= https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/fiction/2017/08/robbie-brady-s-astonishing-late-goal-takes-its-place-our-personal-histories
|date= 2017-08-10
|title= Robbie Brady's astonishing late goal takes its place in our personal histories
|publisher= [[New Statesman]]
}}<ref>{{cite web
|url= https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/fiction/2017/08/robbie-brady-s-astonishing-late-goal-takes-its-place-our-personal-histories
|date=2017-08-12
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170817112615/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/fiction/2017/08/robbie-brady-s-astonishing-late-goal-takes-its-place-our-personal-histories
|url-status= live
|archive-date= 2017-08-17
|access-date= 2019-05-29
|title= "Robbie Brady's astonishing late goal takes its place in our personal histories": A new short story by Sally Rooney
|last= Rooney
|first= Sally
|author-link= Sally Rooney
|website= [[New Statesman]]
|location= London
|quote= appears in the 10 August 2017 issue of the ''New Statesman'', "France’s new Napoleon" https://www.newstatesman.com/2017-08-10
}}</ref>
* {{cite book |url=https://granta.com/mr-salary/
|title= Mr Salary 
|location= London
|publisher= Faber & Faber
|date= January 3, 2019
|page= 48
|isbn= 9780571351954
|oclc= 1104816821
}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/faber-90th-anniversary/|title=Faber tells the story of 90 years of publishing|date=2018-09-05|website=Faber & Faber Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>
:(First published in ''[[Granta]] 135: New Irish Writing Fiction'' 19 April 2016.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://granta.com/mr-salary/|title=Mr Salary|last=Rooney|first=Sally|date=2016-04-19|website=[[Granta Magazine]]|language=en-UK|access-date=2019-04-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://granta.com/conversation-sally-rooney-joanna-walsh/|title=Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh in Conversation|website=[[Granta Magazine]]|language=en-UK|date=2016-06-09|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref>
* {{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/color-and-light|date=2019-03-18|title=Color and Light|website=[[The New Yorker]]}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/color-and-light|title=Color and Light|first=Sally|last=Rooney|website=[[The New Yorker]]|date=2019-03-11|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref>
:(Also published in {{cite book |title=[[Being Various: New Irish Short Stories]]|location=London|publisher=[[Faber and Faber]]|year=2019|isbn=9780571342501}})<ref>{{Cite web|title=Being Various: New Irish Short Stories|url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=being-various-new-irish-short-stories|access-date=2021-04-08|website=Library Journal}}</ref>
* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/unread-messages ''Unread Messages'']. ''The New Yorker''. 12 July 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-07-01|title="Unread Messages"|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/unread-messages|access-date=2021-07-20|website=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Poetry ===
*[https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/tirghra/ "Tírghrá"] '''2''' (30). [[The Stinging Fly]]. Spring 2010.
*[https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/impossibilities/ "Impossibilities"] '''2''' (30). [[The Stinging Fly]]. Spring 2010.
*[https://stingingfly.org/2012/11/01/the-stillest-horse/ "The Stillest Horse"] '''2''' (30). [[The Stinging Fly]]. Winter 2012.
*[https://stingingfly.org/2014/06/01/road-traffic-accident-chennai/ "After a Road Traffic Accident, Chennai"] '''2''' (30). [[The Stinging Fly]]. Summer 2014.
* {{cite journal|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/amazing-live-instrumental-performance-ever-heard/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |title=The Most Amazing Live Instrumental Performance You Have Ever Heard |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/amazing-live-instrumental-performance-ever-heard/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=The Most Amazing Live Instrumental Performance You Have Ever Heard |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* {{cite journal|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/seven-am-in-april/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |title=Seven AM in April |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/seven-am-in-april/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=Seven AM in April |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]] |access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* {{cite journal|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/account-vital-clues-appear-dream/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |title=An Account of Vital Clues Which Appear To You In A Dream |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/account-vital-clues-appear-dream/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=An Account of Vital Clues Which Appear To You In A Dream |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* {{cite journal|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/it-is-monday/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |title=It Is Monday |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]] }}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/it-is-monday/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=It Is Monday |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]] |access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* {{cite journal|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/have-i-been-severe/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |title=Have I Been Severe? |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/have-i-been-severe/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=Have I Been Severe? |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* {{cite book|url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/leaving-you/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=Leaving You |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]}}<ref>{{cite book |last= Rooney |first= Sally |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/leaving-you/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 | isbn=9781906539443 |title=Leaving You |publisher=[[The Stinging Fly]]|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>

=== Essays ===
* {{cite book |url= https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-me/
|date= Spring 2015
|title= Even if you beat me
|volume= 58
|publisher= [[The Dublin Review]]
|isbn= 9780992991524
|language=en-GB
}}<ref name="even-if-you-beat-me">{{cite book |url= https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-me/
|date= Spring 2015
|title= Even if you beat me
|volume= 58
|publisher= [[The Dublin Review]]
|location= Dublin
|isbn= 9780992991524
|url-status= 
|access-date=2019-06-15
|last= Rooney
|first= Sally
|author-link= Sally Rooney
}}</ref>
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n10/sally-rooney/an-irish-problem|title=An Irish Problem|date=24 May 2018|website=[[London Review of Books]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n10/sally-rooney/an-irish-problem|title=An Irish Problem|first=Sally|last=Rooney|date=24 May 2018|website=[[London Review of Books]]|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* {{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/an-app-to-cure-my-fainting-spells|title=An App to Cure My Fainting Spells|work=[[The New Yorker]]|date=2017-11-20}}

=== Audiobooks ===
*{{cite AV media
| title = Two Stories
| url = https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Two-Stories-Audiobook/057136540X
| people = Sally Rooney (Author) Aoife McMahon & Sam O'Mahony (Actor Narrators)
| date = 2020
| medium = Audiobook
| language = en
| publisher = Published by [[Audible (service)|Audible]] & [[Faber & Faber]]
}} This audiobook contains unabridged readings of the stories {{cite book |title=Mr Salary|url=https://granta.com/mr-salary/}} and {{cite web|title=Color and Light|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/color-and-light}} previously published in ''[[Granta]]'' and ''[[The New Yorker]]'' respectively.

=== Book reviews ===
* {{cite news|last=Rooney|first=Sally|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/books/review/troubled-marriages-new-fiction.html |title=Troubled Marriages, Old and New|work=The New York Times |date=9 February 2018|access-date=19 May 2020}}

==Reception==

* {{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/a-new-kind-of-adultery-novel|title=A New Kind of Adultery Novel|first=Alexandra|last=Schwartz|website=The New Yorker|date=2017-07-31}}
*{{cite magazine |author=Collins |date=7 January 2019 |title=Post and riposte : Sally Rooney's novels of love and late capitalism |department=Life and Letters |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=94 |issue=43 |pages=24–29 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head |first=Lauren}}<ref>Online version is titled "Sally Rooney gets in your head".</ref>
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/books/review-normal-people-sally-rooney.html|title=Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' Explores Intense Love Across Social Classes|first=Dwight|last=Garner|date=8 April 2019|website=The New York Times}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/books/review/normal-people-sally-rooney.html|title=Is Sally Rooney's New Novel as Great as Her First?|first=Andrew|last=Martin|date=15 April 2019|website=The New York Times}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713477427/normal-people-appeals-across-genders-and-generations|date=2019-04-16|title='Normal People' Appeals Across Genders And Generations|website=[[NPR]]}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/3/20807728/sally-rooney-normal-people-conversations-with-friends|title=The cult of Sally Rooney|first=Constance|last=Grady|date=3 September 2019|website=Vox}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/sally-rooney-normal-people-bbc-literature|title=How Sally Rooney Gave Normal People Radical Politics|website=jacobinmag.com}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/books/review/love-romance-literature-the-marriage-plot-portrait-of-a-lady.html|title=He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel|first=Emily|last=Eakin|date=12 February 2020|website=The New York Times}}
:"Sally Rooney’s 2017 “Conversations With Friends,” widely heralded as the first great novel of millennial life"
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/05/08/corporeal-imagination-sally-rooneys-normal-people|title=The corporeal imagination of Sally Rooney's 'Normal People'|date=8 May 2020|website=[[America Magazine]]}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/its-mariannes-fault-we-cant-get-a-government-to-satisfy-normal-people-39228105.html|title=It's Marianne's fault we can't get a government to satisfy Normal People|first=Fionná|last=Sheahan|date=23 May 2020|publisher=Irish Independent|access-date=23 May 2020 |quote=The author of Normal People is a self-professed Marxist... her politics seeps through her writing. It's no accident the central protagonists of the book that has captured the nation's imagination are the rich girl living in the mansion and the poor boy whose mother works as her family's cleaner. The TV version glosses over the discussions around 'The Communist Manifesto' and the feminist bible 'The Golden Notebook'.}}

==Awards==
*2017 ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' Young Writer of the Year<ref name = "Pymm"/>
*2018 [[Irish Book Awards]] Novel of the Year – ''Normal People''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/awards-winners-4362303-Nov2018/|title=Success for Lynn Ruane, Sally Rooney and Aislings everywhere at Irish Book Awards|last=Barry|first=Aoife|website=TheJournal.ie|language=en|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref>
*2018 [[Costa Book Awards]] – ''Normal People''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/|title=Costa Book Awards {{!}} Behind the beans {{!}} Costa Coffee|website=www.costa.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref>
*2019 [[Encore Award]] – ''Normal People''<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Encore Award|url=https://rsliterature.org/award/encore-award/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Royal Society of Literature|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Personal life==
She lives in her childhood hometown of [[Castlebar]] and is married to John Prasifka, a mathematics teacher.<ref name="faber1"/><ref>{{Cite news|last=Christensen|first=Lauren|date=28 August 2021|title=‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/books/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|access-date=3 September 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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