A Line Made By Walking

Sara Baume was born in Lancashire and grew up in County Cork Ireland. She studied fine art and creative writing and her fiction and criticism have been published in anthologies newspapers and journals such as the Irish Times the Guardian The Stinging Fly and Granta magazine. She has won the Davy Byrne's Short Story Award the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award the Rooney Prize for Literature an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer and the Kate O'Brien Award. Her debut novel Spill Simmer Falter Wither was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has received a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe New Mexico. A Line Made by Walking is her second novel. She lives in West Cork. Language: English