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Sally Rooney is an Irish writer who rose to fame in 2017 with her debut novel Conversations with Friends. She was born in 1991 and grew up in Castlebar, County Mayo. She attended Trinity College Dublin, where she studied English and philosophy. She later earned a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Her second novel, Normal People, was published in 2018 and was a New York Times bestseller. Rooney has won several awards, including the 2018 Costa Novel Award, the 2018 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and the 2019 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. Rooney’s third book, Beautiful World, Where Are You, was published in 2021. Normal People was turned into a TV series in 2020 and the Conversations with Friends TV series premiered in 2023.