Sara Baume


Sara Baume is an Irish novelist. She was named on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2023.

Biography

Her father is of English descent while her mother is of Irish descent. As her parents travelled around in a caravan, Sara Baume was born "on the road to Wigan Pier". When she was four years old, they moved to County Cork, Ireland. She studied fine art at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and creative writing at Trinity College Dublin from where she was awarded her MPhil. She has received a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her books are published by Tramp Press in Ireland and Heinemann in Britain.
In 2015, she participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa.
In 2023, she was named on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, to identify the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.

Awards and honours

Other awards

Novels

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