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Irish debut novelist Sally Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award

Written By Unknown on Thursday, December 7, 2017 | 2:49 PM

Rooney’s Conversations With Friends was described by the judges as a ‘sophisticated erotic quadrille’ that recalls Jane Austen’s Emma

The “glittering intelligence” of Sally Rooney’s story of the affair between a student and an older actor has won the 26-year-old Irish debut novelist the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award.

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