Repubblica.it: Sally Rooney pubblica il suo libro in ebraico. Ma con un editore pro-pal

La scrittrice bestseller più amata del momento, attiva nel boicottaggio verso Israele, aveva rifiutato di distribuire nel Paese il suo penultimo romanzo. Ma ora cambia idea grazie a un marchio “alternativo”

Sally Rooney publishes her book in Hebrew. But with a pro-Palestinian publisher.

The bestselling and most beloved writer of the moment, active in boycotting Israel, had refused to distribute her latest novel in the country. But now she is changing her mind thanks to an “alternative” brand.

#SallyRooney #Hebrew #pro-Palestinian #Israel

https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026/05/20/news/sally_rooney_intermezzo_libro_israele_boicottaggio_palestinesi-425358403/

"We’re publishing Sally Rooney in Hebrew, in line with BDS. Here’s how and why
After the Irish author declined an Israeli deal for a recent novel, we saw a chance to help strengthen the boycott movement — and clarify its aims.

By Haggai Matar
May 19, 2026

Sally Rooney first declared her support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. At the time, Rooney had already published Hebrew translations of two of her novels with the Israeli publishing house Modan, but refused to translate a third.

A wave of reports by leading international and Israeli human rights groups were concluding that Israel’s regime met the legal definition of “apartheid,” echoing what many Palestinian groups and experts had argued for years. Rooney, strongly impacted by these growing voices, decided to join the Palestinian campaign to pressure Israel by non-violently boycotting cultural institutions considered complicit in these crimes."

https://www.972mag.com/sally-rooney-hebrew-translation-israel-bds-intermezzo/

#palestine #gaza #israel #apartheid #books #BDS #Irish #writer #SallyRooney

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Domani: Per le scrittrici il passato si rilegge tra i frammenti

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, atteso ritorno di Claire-Louise Bennett è un romanzo fatalista, la cui lingua ossessiona il lettore: una prosa frammentata e secca, ricca di anafore e ripetizioni tali da permettere una forte immedesimazione con la protagonista. Un tipo di linguaggio che richiama quello di Veronica Raimo in Non scrivere di me o di Sally Rooney in Intermezzo e che segna una nuova tendenza

For writers, the past is reread through fragments.

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the awaited return by Claire-Louise Bennett is a fatalistic novel, whose language obsesses the reader: a fragmented and dry prose, rich in anaphora and repetitions so great as to allow for strong identification with the protagonist. A type of language that recalls that of Veronica Raimo in *Don’t Write About Me* and Sally Rooney in *Intermezzo*, and marks a new trend.

#BigKiss #VeronicaRaimo #SallyRooney

https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/cultura/big-kiss-bye-bye-libro-romanzo-autrice-claire-louise-bennett-yhe4v5uu

"And what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?"

Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

#SallyRooney

The performance of Irishness for outside approval is finished. Kneecap, Sally Rooney and the comedian Vittorio Angelone ask a question the State has avoided for years: what is all of this for, if not for us?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/02/the-performance-of-irishness-for-outside-approval-is-finished/

#Irishness #patriotism #irish #Kneecap #SallyRooney #nationalism #colony #USimperialism #IrishAmerican #mastodaonie #Ireland #IrishPol #AmericanIrish #PraGringoVer #IrishRepublican #BlindedByFlag #CulturalColonialism #IrelandIsFull #CulturalImperialism

Greta Thunberg, Brian Eno, and Sally Rooney are among more than 130 famous names to risk terrorism charges with a new direct challenge to Labour's Palestine Action ban

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26052264.sally-rooney-among-130-defying-palestine-action-ban-judge-letter/

#PalestineAction #UKpolitics #UKpolice #EpsteinClass #GretaThunberg #UKpol #BrianEno #SallyRooney #Palestine

#SallyRooney, #GretaThunberg and #BrianEno have written to the court of appeal in support of #PalestineAction before next week’s hearing 28th 29th to determine the lawfulness of the ban on the direct action protest group.

The letter, composed of only seven words – “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action” – is signed by more than 130 people and is the first time that prominent scholars, writers and activists have come together to defy the ban

Effectively making them terrorists.