Sara Baume

About

Sara Baume is an Irish novelist and visual artist born in England in 1984 and raised in County Cork, Ireland. She studied fine art before completing a master’s degree in creative writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her second novel, A Line Made by Walking (2017), was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, while her nonfiction book Handiwork (2020) was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Baume’s writing is celebrated for its lyrical prose, close observation of the natural world, and exploration of solitude, human relationships, and the rhythms of everyday life. Her third novel, Seven Steeples (2022), was shortlisted for both the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2023, she was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in West Cork, where she continues to work as a writer and visual artist.