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Sarah May


Born
in Northumberland, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1972

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Sarah May was born in Northumberland, England in 1972. She studied English at London University and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.

Her acclaimed first novel, The Nudist Colony (1999), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. A bleak, menacing fable set in a violent and corrupt England, the story centres on 14-year-old Aesop and his manipulative mentor. Her second book, Spanish City (2002), is a novel set in a pleasure resort on the north-east coast of England and chronicling the evolution of pleasure across the twentieth century, for which she was jointly awarded a 2001 Amazon.co.uk Writers' Bursary. The Internationals, set in and around a Macedonian refugee camp during the 1999 Kosovo crisis, was published in 2003. Her
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“The truth changes everything. There's such an awful intimacy to it, a banality even. Perhaps this is why the one time I actually, publically, tell the truth, and not just to this room of forty or so people, but to the hundreds and thousands beyond it, I am accused by the media of delivering a carefully scripted performance. The performance of a lifetime.”
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