Sarah Hall

Emilie Walezak (Université de Nantes)

Ed. by Kerry Myler, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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Born Jan 1974
Activity 2002-ongoing

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Born in England
Active in England

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Sarah Hall is the author to date of six novels and three collections of short stories. In the summer of 2020, she presented a BBC radio 4 documentary called “The Everywoman” in which she described her childhood “literary encounters” with the characters of Ann Burden in

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and the bride’s mother in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” as “boundary-breaking” (Hall, 2020, 16:46). Boundary-breaking may serve as an apt description of her work. It sums up the consistent features that run through her fiction.

It first calls for a geographic understanding of the word in connection with the Borderlands of her native region of Cumbria. Thus her novel from 2015, The Wolf Border, starts with the following epigraphic quote elucidating her choice of title: “Susiraja

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Citation: Walezak, Emilie. "Sarah Hall". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 November 2020; last revised 19 April 2022. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5852, accessed 23 November 2024.]