1. Sally Rooney was born on 20 February 1991 and is an Irish author and screenwriter.
19 Facts About Sally Rooney
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Sally Rooney has published four novels: Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World, Where Are You, and Intermezzo.
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Sally Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 1991, where she grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City.
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Sally Rooney studied English at Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected a scholar in 2011.
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Sally Rooney started a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013.
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Sally Rooney's first published works were two poems in The Stinging Fly, submitted to the magazine when she was in secondary school.
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Sally Rooney completed her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her master's degree in American literature.
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Sally Rooney wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months.
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Sally Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids.
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Sally Rooney had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read.
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Sally 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.
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In November 2017, Sally Rooney was announced as editor of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly.
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Sally Rooney oversaw the magazine's two issues in 2018, before handing the editorship over to Danny Denton.
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In 2018, Sally Rooney was announced as taking part in the Cuirt International Festival of Literature.
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Sally Rooney did not accept any options for a film adaptation.
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Sally Rooney describes herself as a feminist and a Marxist; both her parents are socialists and instilled socialist values in Sally Rooney.
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Sally 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.
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The feminist themes in Sally Rooney's works have made them popular in China, where they have been best sellers.
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Sally 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 movement.