"We lived mostly on the dole then, with a handful of crappy part-time jobs in-between, for five years, and it was during those years that both my novels were written. It was a hard, bleak period but it was also very simple and joyful at times, and I’m so grateful for that now. It sounds perhaps strange to say but if it wasn’t for the recession and all the opportunities that it removed from my life I doubt if I’d have felt the freedom, and perhaps also the despair, to pursue my writing."
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Interview with Margarita Estévez-Saá, 2020.
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Sara Baume
Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist whose first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Irish Book Award for Newcomer of the Year, and the Kate O'Brien Award. In 2023 she was named on Grantas Best of Young British Novelists list.
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