WRITER

Sally Rooney

1991 - Today

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Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published four novels: Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sally Rooney has received more than 2,812,065 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Sally Rooney is the 6,754th most popular writer (down from 6,049th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 368th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Beautiful World, Where Are You
English literature, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2021-09-26, New York Times bestseller
Three friends and a hanger-on gradually coalesce into two couples.
2021
Normal People
sex, romance, contemporary
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
2018
Mr Salary
Fiction, short stories (single author)
2019
Sally Rooney 3 Books Collection Set
2019
Conversations With Friends
College students, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Female friendship
2017
Intermezzo
2024

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sally Rooney ranks 6,754 out of 7,302. Before her are Dave Eggers, Maja Haderlap, Miles Franklin, Susan Abulhawa, Maggie O'Farrell, and Alexandre Jardin. After her are H. Beam Piper, Kamel Daoud, James K. Morrow, George Etherege, Horton Foote, and Allen Tate.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, Sally Rooney ranks 193. Before her are Diego Demme, Heidi Weng, Darya Klishina, Gai Assulin, Toby Regbo, and Nicolai Jørgensen. After her are Francis Coquelin, Manu Trigueros, Ramy Youssef, Bastos, Carter Cruise, and Łukasz Skorupski.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Sally Rooney ranks 394 out of 549. Before her are Emma Donoghue (1969), Padraic Colum (1881), Sandie Jones (1954), Steve Heighway (1947), Packie Bonner (1960), and Pat Condell (1949). After her are Jim Corr (1964), Michael Davitt (1846), Claire Keegan (1968), Niamh Kavanagh (1968), Glenn Quinn (1970), and Paul Mescal (1996).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Sally Rooney ranks 56. Before her are Marian Keyes (1963), Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906), James Mason (1849), Thomas MacDonagh (1878), Emma Donoghue (1969), and Padraic Colum (1881). After her are Michael Davitt (1846), Claire Keegan (1968), Anne Enright (1962), William Allingham (1824), Patrick McCabe (1955), and Stefan Molyneux (1966).

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