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Free speech killed in the UK: Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/18/sally-rooney-unable-to-collect-award-over-palestine-action-arrest-threatSally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony
Ella Creamer
Thu 18 Sep 2025 08.54 EDT
Irish author Sally Rooney could not travel to collect a literary prize this week over concerns that she may be arrested if she enters the UK, given her support of banned group Palestine Action.
Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for her fourth novel, Intermezzo. At a ceremony on Tuesday, audiences were told that Rooney “couldn’t be here”, before her editor, Faber publisher Alex Bowler, collected the award on her behalf.
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