It was longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. In January 2019, it won the Costa Book Award (formerly the Whitbread) for the Novel category. On 27 November 2018, the work won "Irish Novel of the Year" at the Irish Book Awards and was named Waterstones' Book of the Year for 2018. In July 2018, Normal People was longlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize. The novel grew out of Rooney's exploration of the history between the two main characters of her short story "At the Clinic", which was first published in London-based literary magazine The White Review in 2016. Rooney's second novel, Normal People, was published in September 2018, also by Faber & Faber. In 2018, Rooney was announced as taking part in the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. She remains a contributing editor to the magazine. She oversaw the magazine's two issues in 2018, before handing the editorship over to Danny Denton. She was a contributing writer to the magazine. In November 2017, Rooney was announced as editor of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly. In March 2017, her short story "Mr Salary" was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. It was nominated for the 2018 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the 2018 Folio Prize, and won the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. The novel was published in June 2017 by Faber and Faber. Rooney signed with Tracy Bohan of the Wylie Agency, and Conversations with Friends was subject to a seven-party auction for its publishing rights, which were eventually sold in 12 countries. I didn't want her to see this shoddy draft. She had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read. Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids. In 2015, her essay "Even If You Beat Me", about her time as the "top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an agent, Tracy Bohan, of the Wylie Agency, and Bohan contacted Rooney. She wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months. She completed her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her master's degree in American literature. She began writing "constantly" in late 2014. Her first published work was two poems in The Stinging Fly, submitted to the magazine when she was still in secondary school. Rooney completed her first novel-which she has described as "absolute trash"-at the age of 15. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role. While attending Trinity College Dublin, Rooney was a university debater and eventually became the top debater at the European Universities Debating Championships in 2013, later writing of the experience. Rooney has described herself as a Marxist. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister. Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre. Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 1991, where she also grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City. 2.4 Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021).
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