Sarah Webb (writer)

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Sarah Webb is an Irish writer.

Biography

Webb writes for both children and adults and has had her work published in multiple languages across a number of countries.{{cite web |title=Sarah Webb {{!}} Authors {{!}} The Soho Agency |url=https://thesohoagency.co.uk/authors/sarah-webb |website=thesohoagency.co.uk}} Webb completed her degree in English and History of Art at Trinity College Dublin.{{cite news |title=On writers' block |url=https://www.independent.ie/news/on-writers-block/25929157.html |work=Independent.ie |date=1 September 2003 |language=en}} She started as a writer while working full time in a bookshop and writing at night.{{cite web |title=Sarah Webb |url=https://www.writing.ie/member-authors/sarah-webb/ |website=Writing.ie}}{{cite news |title=‘When my first book came out, I was a single mum working full-time and writing at night.’ |url=https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/when-my-first-book-came-out-i-was-a-single-mum-working-full-time-and-writing-at-night/40347590.html |work=Independent.ie |date=25 April 2021 |language=en}}

Today Webb is considered a significant force for children's books in Ireland. In 2015 she was awarded the CBI Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Children's Books in Ireland.{{cite web |title=Sarah Webb Changes the World |url=https://ilfdublin.com/whats-on/sarah-webb-changes-the-world/ |website=International Literature Festival Dublin |date=9 March 2023}} Her books Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Lauren O’Neill, and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, illustrated by Steve McCarthy, have both won Irish Book Awards.{{cite web |title=Sarah Webb |url=https://www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/sarah-webb/ |website=Irish Book Awards}}{{cite web |title=Previous winners |url=https://www.irishbookawards.ie/previous-winners/ |website=Irish Book Awards}}

Webb was the Dun Laoghaire library Writer in Residence for 2016-2017{{cite web |title=dlr Writer in Residence 2016-2017, Sarah Webb |url=https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/events-and-news/dlr-writer-residence-2016-2017-sarah-webb |website=dlr LIBRARIES |language=en}} and she has worked as a children's programmer for the MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland{{cite web |title=Bright Sparks Creative Bursts – MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland |url=https://moli.ie/learning/bright-sparks-creative-bursts/ |website=moli.ie}} and various book festivals such as 'Mountain to Sea'.{{cite web |title=Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival |url=https://www.dochara.com/events-in-ireland/mountains-to-sea-dlr-book-festival/ |website=www.dochara.com}}{{cite news |title=The writer who went back to bookselling |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-writer-who-went-back-to-bookselling-1.4686878 |work=The Irish Times |language=en}} Webb has returned to working in bookselling through the bookshop 'Halfway Up the Stairs' in Greystones.

=Background=

Webb was born in Dalkey. Her father was a quantity surveyor and her mother worked as a teacher. She has three children and lives in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin and spends time in Castletownshend, West Cork.{{cite web |title=Sarah Webb {{!}} Childrens Books Ireland |url=https://childrensbooksireland.ie/author/sarah-webb |website=childrensbooksireland.ie}}