“I am so pleased to be working with the team at Element, Lenny Abrahamson and the BBC to produce an adaptation of Conversations With Friends. I”
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Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is an Irish author. She is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024). The first two works were adapted into the television miniseries Normal People (2020) and Conversations with Friends (2022). Her bestselling novels have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, have been translated…
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culture · Irish author (born 1991) · novelist · film screenwriter · film producer · writer · also Sally Rooney, Rooney
Born 20 February 1991 · Q54861296
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2026· 11 entries
“It’s kind of like a tennis match. Do the first one,”
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“particular communities or workers in particular industries”
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Daily Mirror: Coleen Rooney beams with joy as she reveals Man Utd starlet son Kai's GCSE results
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Transfermarkt: Rooney 2nd, Sterling 7th - The teenagers with the most minutes in Premier League history
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Yahoo Sports: Ayden Heaven: Rooney explains why Carrick should pair United starlet with Harry Maguire
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The Guardian: ‘It was crap’: Wayne Rooney’s candour helps BBC in World Cup final TV battle
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The Guardian: Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher
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The Guardian: ‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
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The Guardian: Greta Thunberg, Sally Rooney and Brian Eno defy Palestine Action ban in letter to judges
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The Guardian: ‘Immensely heartened’: Sally Rooney hails Palestine Action high court ruling as victory for UK civil liberties
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2025· 7 entries
The Guardian: Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
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The Guardian: Sally Rooney says UK prisoners linked to Palestine Action face ‘shocking mistreatment’
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The Guardian: Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
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The Guardian: Sally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme
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The Guardian: Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
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The Guardian: This month’s best paperbacks: Sally Rooney, Salman Rushdie and more
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The Guardian: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney audiobook review – modern love and loss
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2022).
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Time named her among the 100 most influential people in the world
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2021· 1 entry
fact checker rated the claim “Sally Rooney turned down a translation bid to Hebrew for anti-Semitic reasons.” misleading.
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Encore Award for Normal People (2019).
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded Costa Book Award for Novel for Normal People (2018).
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Before handing the editorship over to Danny Denton
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Rooney was announced as taking part in the Cúirt International Festival of Literature
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2015· 1 entry
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
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2013· 1 entry
Became the top debater at the European Universities Debating Championships
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1991· 2 entries
Born 1991-02-20.
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Where she also grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City
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