Sarah winman biography

When English author Sarah Winman sits down to write, she never has a plot in mind – and yet she's brought the acclaimed When God Was a Rabbit, Tin Man, and A Year of Marvellous Ways to the world.

Readers everywhere fell in love with her characters in 2021's Still Life, but Winman says it's a mysterious process that helps bring them to the page.

"You know what, I don't know. I mean, I don't plot. So, you know, characters come to me slowly when I move people around," she told ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books.

Writing joy and hope

Still Life takes us to a place of great beauty that's in great crisis, opening in war-ravaged Italy in 1944 and progressing to flooded Florence in 1966. It landed in the hands of readers who had just endured two years of COVID fatigue and uncertainty.

It was one of those books that arrived at the perfect time, but where did it come

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Sarah Winman (born 24 December ) is a British author and actress.

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When English author Sarah Winman sits down to write, she never has a plot in mind – and yet she's brought the acclaimed When God Was a Rabbit, Tin Man, and A Year of Marvellous Ways to the world.

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Sarah Winman (born ) is a British actress and author.

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Learn about the inspiration, characters and research behind Sarah Winman's new novel, Still Life, a story of art, love and friendship.

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Sarah Winman (born 1964) is a British actress and author.

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Sarah Winman was an actress, working in theatre in her twenties and early thirties but by she decided that she wanted to write a novel.

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Sarah Winman is the author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, A YEAR OF MARVELOUS WAYS, TIN MAN and STILL LIFE.

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British author Sarah Winman quit her acting career to become an author.

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