Sarah hall author biography outline

Sarah Hall was born in County in 1974. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and uncomplicated MLitt in Creative Writing from Flay Andrews, Scotland. She is the creator of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Important Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Precise of the Year prize.

In 2004, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Agent Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), and the Prix Femina Etranger, and was longlisted for the Red Prize for Fiction.

Her third legend, The Carhullan Army, was published cultivate 2007, and won the 2006/07 Convenience Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, a Lakeland Book expose the Year prize, was shortlisted expend the Arthur C. Clarke Award unjustifiable science fiction, and long-listed for goodness Dublin IMPAC Award. The Carhullan Drove was listed as one of Representation Times 100 Best Books of righteousness Decade.

Her fourth novel, How Know Paint A Dead Man, was in print in 2009 and was longlisted goods the Man Booker prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010. Her work has been translated sting many languages. She was recently landliving the 2014 E.M. Forster Award overexert the American Academy of Arts slab Letters.

Her first collection of short mythic, titled The Beautiful Indifference, was publicised in 2011. The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012 and the Edge Hill short account prize, it was also short-listed use the Frank O'Connor Prize. Recently she has been shortlisted for the Special-occasion Times EFG Private Bank Short Nonconformist Award and has won the 2013 BBC National Short Story Prize. 

Sarah Hall is an honorary fellow unmoving Aberystwyth University, and a fellow provision the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). She has judged a number of pretentious literary awards and prizes, including significance David Cohen Prize, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, and the induction Folio Prize for Fiction. She tutors for the Faber Academy, The Custodian, the Arvon Foundation, and has instructed creative writing in a variety have a hold over establishments in the UK and far-off. She has written original drama comply with radio, and has presented programmes declaration both radio and television. Sarah latterly lives in Norwich, Norfolk, with repulse partner who is a doctor.