Sarah Hall is a critically acclaimed English novelist and poet. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and a MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland. She has received a number of prestigious awards such as the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010 and 2012, or the 2013 BBC National Short Story Award. She has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her works include
Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army (listed as one of The Times 100 Best Books of the Decade),
How To Paint A Dead Man, The Wolf Border, the collections of short stories
The Beautiful Indifference, and
Madame Zero.
Sarah Hall is an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University and the University of Cumbria, and a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. She has judged a number of prestigious literary awards and prizes. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award. She has tutored for the Faber Academy, The Guardian, the Arvon Foundation, and has taught creative writing in a variety of establishments in the UK and abroad. She was born in 1974 and raised in Cumbria and currently lives in Norwich.