Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist. She was named on ''

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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

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". When she was four years old, they moved to

County Cork County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...

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. She studied fine art at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and creative writing at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

from where she was awarded her

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. She has received a Literary Fellowship from the

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. Her books are published by

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in Ireland and Heinemann in Britain. In 2015, she participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the

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, in

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. In 2023, she was named on ''

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list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, to identify the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.

Awards and honours

Literary awards

Other awards

*Davy Byrne's Short Story Award for ''Solesearcher1'', 2014

Novels

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Notes

: (named for the Richard Long sculpture, '' A Line Made by Walking'')

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baume, Sara Living people 1984 births Irish women novelists 21st-century Irish novelists 21st-century Irish women writers Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Irish people of English descent Writers from County Cork