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Sara Baume

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Irish writer

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Florido granado caduco marchito
  • Line Made by Walking, A
  • Seven Steeples
  • Handiwork
  • Die kleinsten, stillsten Dinge

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
2017

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
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Total plays
2

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Quotes

  • I'm looking at the natural world all the time and trying to remind myself of how precious it is, it's still there, and these cycles are still going on. Because I think in ten or twenty years they won't be, things will be very different[.]
  • I was born in a place I am not from and raised in a place I am not from and now I choose to live in a different place I am not from, and so in my writing I keep circling around this idea of how to be at home in a landscape as opposed to a community or, for that matter, a society or a nation.
  • I have always known I’ll never have kids, and I’m lucky to be with a man who feels the same. And I don’t mind talking about it. I know that you sacrifice a great deal of joy as well if you have kids. Obviously having kids would bring happiness too. So it’s a balancing act between all those things.
  • The Celtic Tiger definitely hurt Ireland from an ecological point of view – and on a societal level it brought out a nasty side of people’s nature, which impacted on the environment in turn – an obsession with property, and with ownership and one upmanship, with wealth and appearances.
  • 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.
  • Everything he’s learned is from second-hand sources, as opposed to actually being around people and talking to them. He’s a strange man. And we see them all the time. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with their minds other than they’ve just been formed in a certain way.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Sara
Gender
female
Place of birth
Lancashire
Occupation
novelist
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
literature
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date of birth
1984-00-00
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