About the Author

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry’s Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her first novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Her second novel, Normal People, was released to wide critical acclaim in 2018. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Mr Salary’ and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.