:Sally Rooney

Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo,{{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}} in 1991, where she also grew up{{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}} and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City.{{Cite web |last=Marks |first=Olivia |date=2021-08-09 |title=Inside The Beautiful World Of Sally Rooney |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/sally-rooney-interview |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=British Vogue |language=en-GB}} Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre.{{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|access-date=29 August 2021|work=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite magazine|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|magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011.{{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}} 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.{{cite web|title=Sally Rooney|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/author/sally-rooney/|website=Faber|access-date=19 May 2020}}

While attending Trinity College Dublin, Rooney was a university debater and eventually became the top debater at the European Universities Debating Championships in 2013,{{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}}{{cite magazine|title=A New Kind of Adultery Novel|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/a-new-kind-of-adultery-novel|magazine=The New Yorker|date=24 July 2017|access-date=19 May 2020}} later writing of the experience. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role.{{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}}{{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}}

Rooney completed her first novel—which she has called "absolute trash"—at age 15.{{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}} Her first published works were two poems in The Stinging Fly, submitted to the magazine when she was in secondary school.{{cite web |url=https://stingingfly.org/news/announcing-new-editor/ |website=Stinging Fly|title=Announcing our new editor… }} 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.

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.{{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}}{{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}}

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.

{{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.{{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}} The novel was published in June 2017 by Faber & Faber. It was nominated for the 2018 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize,{{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}} and the 2018 Folio Prize, and won the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.{{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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202041700/https://www.rathbonesfolioprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/EMBARGOED-Media-Release-Rathbones-Folio-Prize-shortlists-announced-FINAL.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2 February 2019|date=27 March 2018|access-date=4 June 2018|publisher=Folio Prize}}{{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}}

In March 2017, her short story "Mr Salary" was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.{{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}} In November 2017, Rooney was announced as editor of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly.{{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}} She was a contributing writer to the magazine.{{cite web|title=author: Sally Rooney|url=https://stingingfly.org/author/sally-rooney/|website=The Stinging Fly|access-date=19 May 2020}} 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.{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://stingingfly.org/about-us/|website=The Stinging Fly|language=en-GB|access-date=30 March 2020}}

In 2018, Rooney was announced as taking part in the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=19 May 2020}}

{{Main articles|Normal People}}

Rooney's second novel, Normal People, was published in September 2018, also by Faber & Faber.{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=4 June 2018}}{{cite web|title=Normal People | Sally Rooney|url=https://granta.com/normal-people/|website=Granta|date=9 August 2018|access-date=19 May 2020}} The novel grew out of Rooney's exploration of 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.{{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|date=12 September 2018|language=en|access-date=18 June 2019}}{{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}} In July 2018, Normal People was longlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize.{{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}} On 27 November 2018, the work won "Irish Novel of the Year" at the Irish Book Awards{{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}} and was named Waterstones' Book of the Year for 2018.{{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}} In January 2019, it won the Costa Book Award (formerly the Whitbread) for the Novel category.{{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}}{{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}} It was longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize{{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}} and the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.{{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}} It has been translated into 46 languages and earned praise from Barack Obama and Taylor Swift, among others.

Normal People was made into a 12-part series as a co-production of BBC Three and the online platform Hulu, with filming taking place in Dublin and County Sligo.{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Economist |date=29 April 2020|access-date=19 May 2020}} 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 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series.{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=28 February 2021}}

In May 2022, the novel Conversations with Friends was also made into a 12-episode BBC Three/Hulu miniseries,{{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}}{{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}} with the same creative team that was behind Normal People. Director Lenny Abrahamson and co-writer Alice Birch worked on this adaptation, too.{{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|access-date=14 May 2020}}{{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}}

{{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."{{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}} The novel was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and by Faber in the UK and Ireland in September 2021.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} She did not accept any options for a film adaptation.{{Cite web |last=Shafer |first=Ellise |date=2024-09-23 |title=Sally Rooney ‘Decided Not to Accept Any Offers’ for Screen Adaptation of Third Novel, Says ‘Normal People’ Discourse Was ‘A Lot’: ‘I Felt That World Was Not Where I Belonged’ |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/sally-rooney-not-adapting-third-novel-screen-normal-people-discourse-1236153097/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

{{Main|Intermezzo (novel)}}

Rooney's fourth novel, Intermezzo, was released in September 2024. The novel focuses on the complicated relationship between two brothers.{{cite web|url= https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber-snaps-up-sally-rooneys-fourth-novel-intermezzo|title= Faber snaps up Sally Rooney's fourth novel, Intermezzo|website= The Bookseller|accessdate= February 29, 2024}}{{Cite news |last=Allardice |first=Lisa |date=2024-09-14 |title=Sally Rooney: ‘Falling in love when I was very young transformed my life’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/14/sally-rooney-intermezzo-interview-normal-people-conversations-friends-love-sex |access-date=2024-09-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite web |last=McAlpin |first=Heller |date=2024-09-24 |title='Intermezzo' is Sally Rooney's most moving novel yet |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/nx-s1-5100222/intermezzo-review-sally-rooney |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=NPR}}{{cite web |date=2024-09-24 |title=All the Reviews of Sally Rooney’s New Novel, “Intermezzo” |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/books/review/intermezzo-sally-rooney-review-roundup.html |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=The New York Times}}

Rooney describes herself as a feminist and a Marxist;{{cite journal |last=Amor Barros-Del Río |first=María |date=26 May 2022 |title=Sally Rooney's Normal People: the millennial novel of formation in recessionary Ireland |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2022.2080036 |journal=Irish Studies Review |volume=30 |issue= 2|pages=176–192 |doi=10.1080/09670882.2022.2080036 |s2cid=249143465 |access-date=24 February 2023 |quote=Ideologically, Sally Rooney is a feminist and a confessed Marxist|hdl=10259/6778 |hdl-access=free }}{{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'.}} both her parents are socialists and instilled socialist values in Rooney.{{cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head |title=Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head |last=Collins |first=Lauren |date=31 December 2019 |work=The New Yorker |access-date=24 February 2023 |quote=[Rooney's parents] took Sally and her two siblings to church, but they were more passionate about passing on socialist values. Marx’s dictum 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' was the household catechism.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/03/sally-rooney-normal-people/ |title=How Sally Rooney took a coming-of-age novel and turned it into an important cultural commentary |last=Choma |first=Russ |date=22 March 2019 |work=Mother Jones |publisher= |access-date=24 February 2023 |quote=I’ve definitely been very interested in Marxist social theory, Marxist cultural theory, and economics. And that comes from my background a bit as well, because my parents were socialists and raised us with a kind of socialist worldview.}} Rooney has said that her work has a Marxist character, and noted that her characters tend to live in economically precarious conditions despite often being college educated.{{cite web |url=https://dezignark.com/blog/writer-sally-rooney-on-transforming-life-into-novels-louisiana-channel/ |title=Writer Sally Rooney on transforming life into novels |last=Tschemerinsky |first=Kathrine |date=26 June 2021 |website= |publisher= |access-date=24 February 2023 |quote=Sally Rooney explains that she sees the world through what she calls a Marxist framework and that both of her novels explore social structures: 'When there are two people alone in a bedroom no one is thinking about class and gender, but the structures are there,' she says. Rooney’s books also discuss social class through her characters: 'The people that I write about tend to be precariously situated in the economy. They are usually college educated like I am, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are financially stable and secure.'}}

The feminist themes in Rooney's works have made them popular in China, where they have been best sellers.{{Cite news |title=Reading Sally Rooney in China |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/12/15/reading-sally-rooney-in-china |access-date=2022-12-16 |issn=0013-0613}}{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Helen |date=11 February 2023 |title=China's censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/chinas-censored-feminist-movement-finds-solace-in-sally-rooney |work=The Guardian |location= |access-date=24 February 2023}}

During the 2018 referendum on the legality of abortion in Ireland, Rooney campaigned for a Yes vote.

Rooney declined an offer from an Israeli publisher to translate Beautiful World, Where Are You into Hebrew, citing her support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.{{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}}{{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/20211011235004/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sally-rooney-refused-hebrew-translation-of-beautiful-world-where-are-you-cbdxrb7zj|archive-date=11 October 2021}} In October 2021, she said, "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".{{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}} In retaliation, two Israeli bookshop chains announced a withdrawal of all of Rooney's titles from their shelves in early November.{{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}} Rooney's Israeli publisher said it would continue selling her titles.{{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}} Subsequently, in a letter organized by Artists for Palestine UK, 70 writers and publishers, including Kevin Barry, Rachel Kushner, Geoff Dyer, Pankaj Mishra, Carmen Callil, and Ahdaf Soueif, said they supported Rooney’s decision.{{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}} In October 2024, Rooney and over 5,500 other writers signed an open letter pledging not to work with Israeli cultural institutions.{{cite web |last1=Sheehan |first1=Dan |title=Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions |url=https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-cultural-institutions/ |website=Literary Hub |access-date=10 November 2024 |date=28 October 2024}}

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• {{cite book |title=Conversations with Friends|location=London|publisher=Faber & Faber|year=2017|isbn=9780571333127}}
• {{cite book |title=Normal People |location=London|publisher=Faber & Faber|year=2018|isbn=9780571334643}}
• {{cite book|title=Beautiful World, Where Are You|location=London|publisher=Faber & Faber|year=2021|isbn=9780571365425}}
• {{cite book|title=Intermezzo|location=London|publisher=Faber & Faber|year=2024|isbn=9780571365463}}

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|isbn= 9780993302909

|language=en-GB

}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/winter-pages-a-treasure-trove-of-soul-fuel-with-deep-roots-in-irish-soil-1.2451485|title=Winter Pages: a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=2019-06-21}}{{cite web|last=Brown |first=Kevin |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/06/kevin-barry-s-chaotic-journey-stoner-entrepreneur-ireland-s-most-unpredictable |title=Kevin Barry's chaotic journey from "stoner entrepreneur" to Ireland's most unpredictable novelist |publisher= New Statesman |date=2016-06-27 |access-date=2020-05-19}}{{cite web|author=The Linenhall Arts Centre |url=http://www.thelinenhall.com/news/?s=vice-president-joe-biden-warmly-welcomed-at-linenhall-arts-centre-castlebar |title=News, Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo | Linenhall Arts Centre |publisher=Thelinenhall.com |access-date=2020-05-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/books/a-gift-for-book-lovers-kevin-barry-and-olivia-smith-have-created-a-beautiful-arts-anthology-winter-pages-367261.html|title=A gift for book-lovers: Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith have created a beautiful arts anthology, Winter Pages|date=27 November 2015|website=www.irishexaminer.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}

• {{cite book |url= https://thedublinreview.com/article/concord-34/

|date= Summer 2016

|title= Concord 34

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|date= Summer 2016

|title= Concord 34

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|access-date=2019-06-15

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|first= Sally

}}

• {{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

}}{{cite book |url= https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/

|date= September 2016

|title= At the Clinic

|volume= 18

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|location= London

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|last= Rooney

|first= Sally

}}{{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}}

• Features prototypes of characters Marianne and Connell from 2018's Normal People.{{Cite web |last=Temple |first=Emily |date=13 May 2020 |title=Read Sally Rooney's first short story about Marianne and Connell |url=https://lithub.com/read-sally-rooneys-first-short-story-to-feature-marianne-and-connell/ |access-date=4 September 2023 |website=Literary Hub}}
• {{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

}}{{cite web

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|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

|website= New Statesman

|location= London

}}

• {{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}}{{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}}

:(First published in Granta 135: New Irish Writing Fiction on 19 April 2016.){{cite magazine |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=2016-04-19 |title=Mr Salary |url=https://granta.com/mr-salary/ |website=Granta Magazine |language=en-UK |issue=135 |isbn=9781905881963 |access-date=4 September 2023}}{{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}}

• {{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/color-and-light |date=2019-03-11 |title=Color and Light |magazine=The New Yorker}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/color-and-light|title=Color and Light|first=Sally|last=Rooney|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2019-03-11|access-date=2020-05-18}}

:(Also published in {{cite book |title=Being Various: New Irish Short Stories |location=London |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2019 |isbn=9780571342501}}){{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}}

• {{Cite magazine |last= |first= |date=2021-07-05 |title=Unread Messages |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/unread-messages |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-GB |access-date=}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=2021-07-05 |title=Unread Messages |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/unread-messages |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-GB |access-date=2023-09-04}}

• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/tirghra/ |date=Spring 2010 |volume=2 |issue=15 |url-access=subscription |title=Tírghrá |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2010 |title=Tírghrá |url=https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/tirghra/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=15 |url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/impossibilities/ |date=Spring 2010 |volume=2 |issue=15 |url-access=subscription |title=Impossibilities |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2010 |title=Impossibilities |url=https://stingingfly.org/2010/02/01/impossibilities/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=15 |url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2012/11/01/the-stillest-horse/ |date=Winter 2012 |volume=2 |issue=23 |url-access=subscription |title=The Stillest Horse |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Winter 2012 |title=The Stillest Horse |url=https://stingingfly.org/2012/11/01/the-stillest-horse/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=23 |url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2014/06/01/road-traffic-accident-chennai/ |date=Summer 2014 |volume=2 |issue=28 |url-access=subscription |title=After a Road Traffic Accident, Chennai |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Summer 2014 |title=After a Road Traffic Accident, Chennai |url=https://stingingfly.org/2014/06/01/road-traffic-accident-chennai/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=28 |url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/amazing-live-instrumental-performance-ever-heard/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=The Most Amazing Live Instrumental Performance You Have Ever Heard |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=The Most Amazing Live Instrumental Performance You Have Ever Heard |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/amazing-live-instrumental-performance-ever-heard/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/seven-am-in-april/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=Seven AM in April |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=Seven AM in April |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/seven-am-in-april/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/account-vital-clues-appear-dream/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=An Account of Vital Clues Which Appear To You In A Dream |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=An Account of Vital Clues Which Appear To You In A Dream |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/account-vital-clues-appear-dream/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/it-is-monday/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=It Is Monday |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=It Is Monday |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/it-is-monday/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/have-i-been-severe/ |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=Have I Been Severe? |journal=The Stinging Fly}}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=Have I Been Severe? |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/have-i-been-severe/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}
• {{cite journal |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/leaving-you/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |date=Spring 2015 |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |title=Leaving You }}{{cite journal |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=Spring 2015 |title=Leaving You |url=https://stingingfly.org/2015/02/01/leaving-you/ |journal=The Stinging Fly |volume=2 |issue=30 |isbn=9781906539443 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-05-19 }}

• {{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

}}{{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

|access-date=2019-06-15

|last= Rooney

|first= Sally

}}

• {{Cite journal |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n10/sally-rooney/an-irish-problem |title=An Irish Problem |date=24 May 2018 |journal=London Review of Books |volume=40 |issue=10}}{{Cite journal|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|journal=London Review of Books|volume=40|issue=10|access-date=19 May 2020}}
• {{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/an-app-to-cure-my-fainting-spells|title=An App to Cure My Fainting Spells|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2017-11-20}}{{cite magazine |last=Rooney |first=Sally |date=2017-11-13 |title=An App to Cure My Fainting Spells |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/an-app-to-cure-my-fainting-spells |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=4 September 2023}}

• {{cite AV media |url=https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Two-Stories-Audiobook/057136540X |title=Two Stories |date=11 May 2020 |last= |first= |medium=Audiobook |language=en |publisher=Audible & Faber & Faber |others=Narrated by Aofie McMahon & Sam O'Mahony |place=London |people=}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Two-Stories-Audiobook/057136540X |title=Two Stories |date=11 May 2020 |last=Rooney |first=Sally |medium=Audiobook |language=en |publisher=Audible & Faber & Faber |others=Narrated by Aofie McMahon & Sam O'Mahony |people=}}

:This audiobook contains unabridged readings of the stories "Mr Salary" and "Color and Light", previously published in Granta and The New Yorker, respectively.

• {{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}}

• {{Cite magazine |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 |magazine=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}}Online version is titled "Sally Rooney gets in your head".
• {{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/books/review-normal-people-sally-rooney.html |url-access=subscription |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://jacobin.com/2020/05/sally-rooney-normal-people-bbc-literature |last=Baucina |first=Anastasia |date=6 May 2020 |title=How Sally Rooney Gave Normal People Radical Politics |access-date=4 September 2023 |website=Jacobin}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/books/review/love-romance-literature-the-marriage-plot-portrait-of-a-lady.html |url-access=subscription |title=He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel |first=Emily |last=Eakin |date=12 February 2020 |website=The New York Times |quote=Consider 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 |url-access=subscription |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'.}}

• 2017 The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
• 2018 Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year – Normal People{{Cite web |last=Barry |first=Aoife |date=27 November 2018 |title=Success for Lynn Ruane, Sally Rooney and Aislings everywhere at Irish Book Awards |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/awards-winners-4362303-Nov2018/ |access-date=2019-12-14 |website=TheJournal.ie |language=en}}
• 2018 Costa Book Awards – Normal People{{Cite web |title=Costa Book Awards |url=https://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/ |access-date=2019-12-14 |website=Costa.co.uk}}
• 2019 Encore Award – Normal People{{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}}
• 2022 Dalkey Literary Awards – Beautiful World, Where Are You{{Cite web |title=Winner of the Novel of the Year 2022 |url=https://www.zurich.ie/dalkey-literary-awards/2022/novel-of-the-year/winner// |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Zurich Ireland |language=en}}
• 2024 Irish Book Awards Author of the Year{{Cite web |last=Moynihan |first=Michael |date=27 November 2024 |title=Irish Book Awards winners revealed, including Irish Examiner journalist |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41525363.html |website=Irish Examiner}}

Rooney lives in her childhood hometown of Castlebar and is married to John Prasifka, a mathematics teacher.{{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}}

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