Sarah Hall (writer)
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Sarah Hall is a young British novelist and poet. Her critically-acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success. She currently lives in Cumbria, in north-western England.
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Sarah Hall (born 1974 in Carlisle[1]) is an English novelist[2]. She obtained a degree in English and Art History from Aberystwyth University before taking an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, where she briefly taught on the undergraduate Creative Writing programme. She still teaches creative writing, regularly giving courses for the Arvon Foundation.
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Sarah Hall began her writing career as a poet, publishing poems in various literary magazines.
Her debut novel, Haweswater (2002), is a rural tragedy about the disintegration of a community of Cumbrian hill-framers, due to the building of a reservoir. It won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book).
Her second book, The Electric Michelangelo (2004), the biography of a fictional tattoo artist, is set in early twentieth century Morecambe Bay and Coney Island. The novel· was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004, and again for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2005. In France, it was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger 2004.
Her latest work, The Carhullan Army (2007), a science fiction novel, won the 2007 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
All her novels are published by Faber and Faber. Sarah Hall has lived in both the United Kingdom and in North Carolina.
