Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist.

Life

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 4, they moved to

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns a ...

, Ireland. She studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire College 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 The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her books are published by

Tramp Press Tramp Press is a publishing company founded in Dublin in 2014 by Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff. It is an independent publisher that specialises in Irish fiction. The company is named after John Millington Synge's tramp, a reference to the bold ...

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, IA.

Novels

*''Spill Simmer Falter Wither'' Dublin: Tramp Press, 2015. , *''A Line Made by Walking'' Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. , (named for the Richard Long sculpture, A Line Made by Walking) *''handiwork'' Dublin: Tramp Press, 2020. , *''Seven Steeples'' Dublin: Tramp Press, 2022. ISBN 9781916291485

Awards

*Davy Byrne's Short Story Award for ''Solesearcher1'', 2014 * Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, 2015 * Rooney Prize for Literature, 2015 *

Irish Book Award The Irish Book Awards are Irish literary awards given annually to books and authors in various categories. In 2018 An Post took over sponsorship of the awards from Bord Gais Energy. It is the only literary award supported by all-Irish bookstores. ...

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year for ''Spill Simmer Falter Wither'', 2015 *

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish ...

, for ''Spill Simmer Falter Wither'', 2015 * Kate O’Brien Award for ''Spill Simmer Falter Wither'', 2016 *

Folio Prize The Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known as the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first two years, 2014–2015. Starting in 2017 the sponsor is ...

, shortlisted for ''handiwork'', 2021

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 IADT