Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney (born 1991) is an Irish novelist who became a defining voice of millennial fiction with two debut novels that combined social critique, literary modernism, and acute psychological observation. Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, she studied English at Trinity College Dublin where she was a nationally ranked competitive debater. Her debut *Conversations with Friends* (2017) established her preoccupations: class, power, irony, and the failure of emotional communication in young adulthood. *Normal People* (2018) became a global phenomenon, adapted into a critically acclaimed Hulu/BBC series. Her third novel *Beautiful World, Where Are You* (2021) reflected on fame, authenticity, and the difficulty of living meaningfully in conditions of global injustice. She is one of the bestselling literary novelists of her generation and among the first to make Marxist class analysis central to literary romance. Sally Rooney lived b. 1991.