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Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
With a background in law, as well as journalism, she has pivoted to a different fiction genre. Yet, her earlier novels in the 2000s drew praise in the Irish literary scene for being skilled upmarket commercial fiction. She wrote an Irish number one bestseller as well as a second bestseller. In her new writing life, her second literary act, she has won or been shortlisted for prizes in Ireland and the UK, including the Bryan Mac Mahon Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Bridport Prize. Her short story The Graduation was highly commended in the Bridport Short Story Prize 2020. The judge in her report said: “The Graduation is also full of great dialogue which adds to its huge energy. It's short yet says so much and is full of wisdom and confidence. She wonders what all the striving is about, when everyone is on a collision course with death. I'd love to read a novel by this writer - the characters and settings are so vivid and have real depth.” This short story is the basis for her novel The Tribe.
Her non-fiction writing regularly captures public attention both in terms of online engagement and on national radio. She combines a sharp cultural lens with assured media presence. She is at home in print, broadcast,and public debate. Sarah is based in Ireland and brings both a national and international perspective to her work giving a sharp take on modern life. Sarah’s journalism has been amplified by leading voices nationally and internationally including Margaret Atwood, internationally best-selling economist David McWilliams, The National Women’s Council, The Council of Civil Liberties and Ruhama (Ireland’s anti-trafficking NGO). Her columns consistently provoke strong responses across Irish media, from Facebook comment threads to national radio and resonate especially with female readers in their 30s, 40s, 50s a key audience for her forthcoming novel.
She was awarded the maximum Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland for her new writing. She also reviews books for the Irish Examiner. She moderates literary events often with well established Irish and English writers. She was the only Irish woman chosen for a landmark global reading of Ulysses in Dublin in 2013, as part of a team of writers that included the writers Kevin Barry, Joseph O’Connor, and John Boyne. She works as a strategist for a national domestic violence organisation.
Watch Sarah Harte in conversation with Donal Ryan at the Cork International Poetry Festival 2022 here.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
With a background in law, as well as journalism, she has pivoted to a different fiction genre. Yet, her earlier novels in the 2000s drew praise in the Irish literary scene for being skilled upmarket commercial fiction. She wrote an Irish number one bestseller as well as a second bestseller. In her new writing life, her second literary act, she has won or been shortlisted for prizes in Ireland and the UK, including the Bryan Mac Mahon Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Bridport Prize. Her short story The Graduation was highly commended in the Bridport Short Story Prize 2020. The judge in her report said: “The Graduation is also full of great dialogue which adds to its huge energy. It's short yet says so much and is full of wisdom and confidence. She wonders what all the striving is about, when everyone is on a collision course with death. I'd love to read a novel by this writer - the characters and settings are so vivid and have real depth.” This short story is the basis for her novel The Tribe.
Her non-fiction writing regularly captures public attention both in terms of online engagement and on national radio. She combines a sharp cultural lens with assured media presence. She is at home in print, broadcast,and public debate. Sarah is based in Ireland and brings both a national and international perspective to her work giving a sharp take on modern life. Sarah’s journalism has been amplified by leading voices nationally and internationally including Margaret Atwood, internationally best-selling economist David McWilliams, The National Women’s Council, The Council of Civil Liberties and Ruhama (Ireland’s anti-trafficking NGO). Her columns consistently provoke strong responses across Irish media, from Facebook comment threads to national radio and resonate especially with female readers in their 30s, 40s, 50s a key audience for her forthcoming novel.
She was awarded the maximum Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland for her new writing. She also reviews books for the Irish Examiner. She moderates literary events often with well established Irish and English writers. She was the only Irish woman chosen for a landmark global reading of Ulysses in Dublin in 2013, as part of a team of writers that included the writers Kevin Barry, Joseph O’Connor, and John Boyne. She works as a strategist for a national domestic violence organisation.
Watch Sarah Harte in conversation with Donal Ryan at the Cork International Poetry Festival 2022 here.
Author: Sarah Harte
Genres: Genre Fiction
Reading Group Fiction by Irish columnist and returned novelist Sarah Harte is themed around class, the impact of money, and the beauty of loyalty.
Six characters, all around 50, are reunited for a weekend in West Cork to celebrate the birthday of one of their gang. Inseparable as students in University College Cork, now relations are more strained. The birthday boy’s world is collapsing as he faces bankruptcy. The reactions of his ‘friends’ to this revelation allow the author to skewer the Irish middle class.
The drama peaks with a death, all of which we witness through the observant, but unreliable, narrator Oonagh.
Sarah Harte had an Irish number one bestseller in the 90s, as well as a second bestseller (both Bridget Jones genre) back then, both published by Penguin Ireland. Today. her weekly column in The Examiner national newspaper is often widely shared and sometimes gets big social media attention.