Writer Sally Rooney on Transforming Life Into Novels | Louisiana Channel

The acclaimed Irish writer Sally Rooney explains her urge to write novels about the life that she is living: “It didn’t come from any particular fascination with my own life, it was just that that was the only life that I had available to me.” In this video, Sally Rooney explains that her two first novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, drew inspiration from her own experiences at university in Dublin: “I feel like I need to know something really well before I can pick up the kind...

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