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'A strong but unheralded contender for most influential fiction writer...' - The Sunday Times, 2020. | Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in the Lake District in 1974. She received a BA joint honours in English and Art History from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland. Sarah has lived in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the USA, and she is currently based in the South Lakes. She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. In 2004, at the age of 30, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), and the Prix Femina Etranger (France), and long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, The Carhullan Army, (Daughters of the North, USA) was published in 2007, and won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, a Lakeland Book of the Year prize; it was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Award. The Carhullan Army was listed as one of The Times 100 Best Books of the Decade. The television rights are held by Fable Pictures Limited for development as a series. Her fourth novel, How To Paint A Dead Man,was published in 2009, was long-listed for the Man Booker prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010. The Wolf Border, her fifth novel, was published in 2015, to much critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for The Southbank Sky Arts Awards and the James Tate Memorial Black prize, and it won the 2015 Cumbria Life Culture Awards 'Writer of the Year' prize. Her first collection of short stories, titled The Beautiful Indifference, was published by Faber & Faber in November 2011. The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012 and the Edge Hill short story prize, and it was also short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Prize. The story Butcher’s Perfume was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her second collection, Madame Zero, was published in 2017. It was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize (winning the 'Readers' Prize' category) and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Fiction category. The lead story, Mrs Fox, won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2013. The story Goodnight Nobody won an O'Henry Prize in the USA. The story Evie was shortlisted for the Sunday Times (EFG/Audible) Prize. Sarah's third short story collection, Sudden Traveller, was published in November 2019. The title story was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018, making her the only author to be three times shortlisted for this prize. She went on to win the BBC National Short Story Award for The Grotesques, another story in the collection, and is the only author to have won the award twice. The Grotesques was also honored as a finalist for the 2020 ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) Award for Fiction. The collection was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial prize and The Edge Hill prize. Her short stories have been widely published and recorded, including by the following outlets and periodicals - The Guardian, New Statesman, T Magazine (The New York Times), One Story (USA), Sotheby's, The Amorist, T24 (Independent Turkish media), Granta, English Heritage, Zoetrope, BBC Radio 4, Audible Originals, Royal Academy Magazine, Vice, and Comma Press. Sarah's sixth novel, Burntcoat, was published by Faber & Faber, UK, and Custom House (Harper Collins, USA) in 2021. Her work is published throughout the world and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She has performed at numerous literary festivals in the UK and around the world and has been a participant of British Council conferences and seminars abroad, most recently discussing new British Nature Writing in Germany with Robert MacFarlane. Sarah Hall is Professor of Practice at the University of Cumbria and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University and the University of Cumbria, and a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award, and she was included in the Granta Best Young British Novelists list 2013. She has judged a number of prestigious literary awards and prizes including the inaugural Folio Prize (now Rathbones Folio Prize), the Man Booker Prize, the David Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sunday Times (EFG/Audible) and BBC National Short Story Awards, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Award. She has been a member of the Arts Council Northwest region, responsible for investment in the arts. For almost 20 years Sarah has been teaching creative writing, including for the Faber Academy, The Guardian Master-classes, the Arvon Foundation. She has tutored in a variety of establishments in the UK and abroad. She a currently a mentor for the Gold Dust scheme. She frequently publishes works of journalism, including reviews, op-eds and provocations, commentates for BBC Radio 4, and she has presented radio and television documentaries for outlets such as the BBC and Sky Arts. |
Latest News: Sarah is a contributor to Radio 3's The Wicker Man Verb: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Being on Granta's best young novelists list has its drawbacks. Sarah Hall: www.theguardian.com Burntcoat has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023: www.dublinliteraryaward.ie Sarah Hall - Critical Essays has recently been published: www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Hall-Critical-Contemporary-Writers Sarah is a panelist on BBC R4 Open Book on nature writing: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Sarah will be appearing at the Gan Yam Brew Co. Festival of Music, Craft and Culture "LANDMARKS" in December www.ganyambrew.co.uk Burntcoat is The Guardian audiobook of the week: www.theguardian.com/books Burntcoat made The Times best paperbacks 2022: www.thetimes.co.uk Burntcoat has been shortlisted for the literature category of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards: www.skygroup.sky Sarah has a new short story called 'Be Good' published by Fictionable: www.fictionable.world BBC Radio Cumbria interview with Helen Millican about Burntcoat: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Sarah is presenting a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Radiohead’s album OK Computer next month as part of their 1990’s series: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre Humanists UK is delighted to welcome three new patrons into the fold, including novelist Sarah Hall: www.humanists.uk/2022 Burntcoat is one of the finalists in the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2021: www.bookcritics.org The Irish Times books of the year: Anne Enright's favourite titles of 2021: www.irishtimes.com/culture/books The Guardian best fiction of 2021: www.theguardian.com/books New York Times Book Review of Burntcoat: www.nytimes.com BBC Open Book. Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds The Faber Interview: Sarah Hall - www.faber.co.uk/journal A moment that changed me: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle Join awarding-winning writer, Sarah Hall, for her online short story course this autumn: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events Burntcoat has been rounded up into the Guardian best books this Autumn: www.theguardian.com Sarah has a piece in this new anthology about music: www.theguardian.com Sarah has been made a Professor of Practice at the University of Cumbria: www.cumbria.ac.uk Faber is to publish Sarah Hall's latest novel, Burntcoat, in autumn this year: www.faber.co.uk This Christmas, read a story aloud - you'll be surprised by the joy it brings: www.theguardian.com Sarah was interviewed on BBC R4 Front Row about her 2020 BBC National Short Story Prize shortlisting: www.bbc.co.uk Sudden Traveller has been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2020: www.edgehill.ac.uk Sudden Traveller Paperback publication date is 15th October 2020 www.faber.co.uk Sudden Traveller has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize: www.edgehill.ac.uk/shortstory Sudden Traveller has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize: www.ed.ac.uk/news Sarah is presenting a two part Radio 4 documentary called The Everywoman: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h8gr Faber are running one of Sarah's stories in their Lunchtime Shorts series: twitter.com/FaberBooks Review of Sudden Traveller in the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/articles Sarah's short story, The Grotesques, has been honored as a finalist for the 2020 ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) Award for Fiction. It was published in Zoetrope. www.asme.media Sarah has written a short story for English Heritage called 'The Hand Under The Stone'. It features in their anthology, These Our Monsters: www.english-heritageshop.org.uk Sarah has written a short piece about fiction for Arvon: www.arvon.org/the-stories-we-tell Sarah was on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds Guardian review written by Sarah about Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure www.theguardian.com/books Women at war: why do we still struggle with the idea of female soldiers? www.theguardian.com/books Sarah has a new short story called 'The Woman The Book Read' published in the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/fiction Sarah and curator Melanie Vandenbrouck consider the moon's illuminating impact on literature. BBC Radio 4 Open Book: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Sarah's story Goodnight Nobody (from Madame Zero) is one of the winners of the 2019 O. Henry Prize for short fiction: www.lithub.com/announcing-the-100th-annual-o-henry-prize Sarah has contributed to an exhibition at Wordsworth House and Garden called 'This Land Is Our Land': www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wordsworth-house-and-garden Sarah spoke on The Art of Intimacy on BBC R4, Thursday 31st January: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Article in The Guardian on trauma and the unexpected tonic of extreme reading: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle Lycian Writers Sarah will be teaching fiction writing courses in the South of Turkey, spring and autumn 2019. Find out more Madame Zero won the 2018 Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award. The Edge Hill Short Story Prize was won by the wonderful Tessa Hadley. www.edgehill.ac.uk/shortstory Who Pays? A new story commissioned by The New York Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com Sudden Traveller has been shortlisted for the BBC short story award 2018. www.theguardian.com/books Sarah on Cumbria in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books Sarah's story Later, His Ghost has made it into the Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story: www.penguin.co.uk Sarah was Chair of judges for the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize 2018, congratulations to Kevin Jared Hosein: www.commonwealthwriters.org Sarah has a new piece in Toast magazine: Long Slow Road to the Sea Madame Zero is one of five books on the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Shortlist: www.edgehill.ac.uk/shortstory The Cambridge Festival of Creative Writing 7th July. Evening discussion with Sarah Hall. www.ice.cam.ac.uk The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist 2018 has just been announced: www.commonwealthwriters.org Previous News stories For information on our Privacy & Cookie Policy, please click here |
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