Sally Rooney (1991, Castelbar) is an Irish writer and screenwriter. She published her first novel , Conversations with Friends, in 2017 while she was finishing her studies in American literature, and was named the best young writer by The Sunday Times . Her second novel Normal People , which was adapted into a series of the same name, was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Women's Prize for Fiction, and won the British Costa Literary Award for Best Novel 2018.

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