Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and three short-story collections: The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, Madame Zero, winner of the East Anglian Book Award, and Sudden Traveller, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. She is currently the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with ‘Mrs Fox’ and in 2020 with ‘The Grotesques’.
Sarah Hall on Granta.com
Fiction | The Online Edition
Naomi
Sarah Hall
‘When I was eight, my mother died and Naomi arrived.’
An excerpt from Burntcoat by Sarah Hall.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Cumbrian Fell Pony
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall writes about the Cumbrian fell pony for Granta 142: Animalia.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition
Sarah Hall | Five Things Right Now
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Sarah Hall | Podcast
Sarah Hall & Saskia Vogel
Sarah Hall speaks to Saskia Vogel about wolves, tattoos and the wilds of Cumbria.
Fiction | Issue 123
The Reservation
Sarah Hall
‘He can dream of fields of unicorns or invest in the reanimation of sabretooth DNA, if the prognostication visits him.’
Fiction | Issue 117
She Murdered Mortal He
Sarah Hall
‘Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.’