Руни
Салли Руни родилась и выросла в городке Каслбар в графстве Ме́йо в Ирландии, где ее мать руководила арт-центром, а отец работал на местный интернет-провайдер. В 15 лет Руни начала посещать писательскую мастерскую каждый второй понедельник месяца и написала свой первый роман, про который сама говорит, что это был «настоящий мусор». Она изучала английскую филологию в колледже Тринити в Дублине и получила ученую степень в 2011 году. Там же она начала изучать (но не закончила) политологии, получила степень по американской литературе и защитила магистерскую в 2013 году.
В студенчестве Руни принимала участие в дебатах в колледже и даже была признана лучшей на Европейском университетском соревновании по дебатам в 2013 году. Написала об этом эссе Even if you beat me, которое прочла агент Трэйси Боуэн и сразу же заинтересовалась авторкой. Вскоре рукопись «Разговоров с друзьями» получила предложения от семи издательств. Роман вышел в 2017 в издательстве Faber and Faber. Книгу перевели на 17 языков, а Руни получила за нее престижную британскую премию Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, а также премию Дилана Томаса от Международного университета Суонси и премию Rathbones Folio Prize.
Её второй роман «Нормальные люди» вышел в 2018 году также в издательстве Faber and Faber и был номинирован на Букеровскую премию еще до того, как вышел в печать. В том же году «Нормальные люди» стали лауреатом премии «Ирландский роман года» и получили звание книги года по мнению британской розничной сети по продаже книг «Waterstones». В 2019 году роман получил премию Коста и попал в лонглисты премии Дилана Томаса и женской премии за художественную литературу.
Салли Руни называет себя марксисткой − в своих произведениях она использует оптику гендера и класса, чтобы показать связь между социальным, экономическим и личным. В юности она шокировала даже «левых» знакомых своими крайне левыми убеждениями. Поэтому успех двух романов − «Разговоры с друзьями» и «Нормальные люди» − огорчает авторку. Руни хотела рассказать миру о проблемах капиталистического общества, но вместо этого создала текст, ставший атрибутом гламурных блогерок.
С декабря 2017 по январь 2019 Руни занимала пост главного редактора ирландского литературного журнала «The Stinging Fly». Писательница и сейчас сотрудничает с журналом в качестве способствующего редактора. Известно, что в последнее время Салли Руни работает над романом Beautiful World, Where Are You, в котором исследует феномены эстетики и политического кризиса.
Sally Rooney was editor from December 2017 until January 2019, and remains a contributing editor with Morris.
she writes about having to extemporize on “the secession of Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina” in front of a group of Serbian debaters, and being unsettled by “the composed self-assurance with which we fabricated the history of their region.”
she had been scribbling away on and off since, as a 15-year-old, she began attending a writing workshop every second Monday in the small market town of Castlebar, Co Mayo, where her mother ran the local arts centre and her father worked for Irish Telecom.
Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo,[2] in 1991, and grew up there.[3] Her father worked for Telecom Éireann, and her mother ran an arts centre. Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister.[3] Rooney studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011.[4] She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, and completed a degree in American literature instead, and graduated from an MA in 2013.[5] Rooney has described herself as a Marxist.[1]
A university debater, as a student at Trinity College Dublin, Rooney rose through the ranks of the European circuit to become the top debater at the European University Debating Championships in 2013,[6][7] later writing of the experience.[8] Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role.[9][10] She lives in Dublin.[5]
Career[edit]
Rooney completed her first novel—which she has described as "absolute trash"—at the age of 15.[11]
She began writing "constantly" in late 2014. She completed her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, while still studying for her master's degree in American literature. She wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months.[11]
In 2015, her essay "Even if You Beat Me", about her time as the “top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an agent, Tracy Bohan, of the Wylie Agency, and Bohan contacted Rooney. Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids.[12][13][14]
"She had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read"..."But I didn’t send her anything for ages"..."I don’t know why. I didn’t want her to see this shoddy draft."[9]
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.[15][16] The novel was published in June 2017 by Faber and Faber. It was nominated for the 2018 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize,[17] and the 2018 Folio Prize, and won the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.[18][19]
"Mr Salary"[edit]
In March 2017, her short story "Mr Salary" was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.[20]
Editor of The Stinging Fly[edit]
Sally Rooney was announced as editor of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly in November 2017.[21] She was a contributing writer to the magazine.[22] Rooney oversaw the magazine's two issues in 2018, before handing the editorship over to Danny Denton. She remains a contributing editor to the magazine.[23]
In 2018, Rooney was announced as taking part in the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.[24]
Normal People novel[edit]
Rooney's second novel, Normal People, was published in September 2018, also by Faber & Faber.[25][26] The novel grew out of Rooney's exploration into the history between the two main characters of her short story "At the Clinic."[27] In July 2018, Normal People was longlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize.[28] On 27 November 2018, the work won "Irish Novel of the Year" at the Irish Book Awards[29] and was named Waterstones' Book of the Year for 2018.[30] In January 2019, it won the Costa Novel Award (formerly the Whitbread) for the Novel category.[31][32] It was longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize[33] and the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.[34]
New York Public Library novel fellowship[edit]
On 23 April 2019, the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced its 2019 class of fellows, which included Rooney. The press release stated "she will be writing a new novel under the working title Beautiful World, Where Are You, examining aesthetics and political crisis."[35]
Normal People miniseries[edit]
The novel was made into a 12-part series as a co-production of BBC Three and the online platform Hulu, with filming taking place in Dublin and County Sligo.[36][37] The series was directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald.
Conversations with Friends miniseries[edit]
In February 2020, it was announced that the novel Conversations with Friends would be made into a 12-episode Hulu/BBC Three miniseries.[38][39] It was also announced that the creative team behind Normal People, director Lenny Abrahamson and co-writer Alice Birch would be returning.
It was only after that book came out that Rooney first felt comfortable describing herself as a writer, though in truth, she had been scribbling away on and off since, as a 15-year-old, she began attending a writing workshop every second Monday in the small market town of Castlebar, Co Mayo, where her mother ran the local arts centre and her father worked for Irish Telecom.
Rooney attributes her bracingly dispassionate writing style to having spent “too much time” on the internet, steeped in the irony-laden “you-can’t-laugh-at-me-because-I’m-already-laughing” tone favoured by millennial tweeters and emailers everywhere.
Sally Rooney stepped into the role as editor of 'The Stinging Fly' magazine, hailed as Ireland's foremost literary journal.
Around this time, she was contacted by a literary agent, Tracy Bohan at the Wylie agency in London, who had been impressed by an acerbic essay Rooney had written for the Spring 2015 issue of The Dublin Review, telling the true story of how, “motivated by a desperation to be liked”, she had joined Trinity College’s student debating society and gone on to become “the number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe”.
The following year, Conversations with Friends sold in a seven-way auction to Faber and Faber as part of a two-book deal lucrative enough to enable Rooney to write full-time. When the novel was published in May 2017, it was greeted with critical approval and commercial success; Rooney was hailed as the voice of her generation.
In July, it was announced that Rooney’s follow-up — the Marianne and Connell novel, now called Normal People — had been longlisted for the Man Booker before it had even been published, making its now 27-year-old author the joint youngest contender for this year’s prize.
Although Rooney is now firmly established on the literary map and living what she identifies as a satisfyingly “normal” domestic life in Dublin with her boyfriend, a maths teacher
Nevertheless, following what she calls a “really long period of not writing anything except criticism and starting to get quite demoralised” — a period in which it was announced that she had also taken on the editorship of The Stinging Fly, a well-respected journal of new Irish writing — it seems that Rooney has, in fact, returned to fiction. Or, as she puts it, smiling in spite of herself: “I am kind of working on something which may turn out to be nothing.”
Принимала участие в дебатах в колледже и даже была признана лучшей на Европейском университетском соревновании по дебатам в 2013 году.
Написала об этом эссе Even if you beat me, которое прочла агент Трэйси Боуэн и сразу же заинтересовалась Руни.Роман
«Разговоры с друзьями» был написан в 2014 году за три месяца, во время учебы в магистратуре, а вышел в 2017 в издательстве Faber and Faber.Книгу перевели на 17 языков, а Руни получила за нее престижную британскую премию Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. В начале 2020 года Hulu/BBC Three анонсировали выход мини-сериала по роману.«Нормальные люди» — второй роман Руни, он вышел в 2018 году.Отличительная черта стиля Руни — немаркированность прямой речи, что особенно интересно, учитывая, что ее тексты практически целиком состоят из диалогов.Сейчас работает над романом Beautiful World, Where Are You, в котором исследует феномены эстетики и политического кризиса.