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Sara Baume

Sara Baume
Sara Baume won the 2014 Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, and in 2015, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature and an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer. Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. In autumn 2015, she was a participant in the International Writing Program run by the University of Iowa and received a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She lives on the south west coast of Ireland.


Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own

“When I set about the task of reading Henrichsen’s Seven Steeples I did not expect to find any kinship.”
April 27, 2022  By Sara Baume
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How to Understand America, One Pattern at a Time

From Ireland to Iowa, When Words Fail, Draw
March 17, 2016  By Sara Baume
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