| Writer Sally Rooney said she could not partner with a publisher which would not “publicly distance itself from apartheid and support the UN-stipulated rights of the Palestinian people. |
Sally Rooney novels snapped up by Palestinian readers amid row over cultural boycott
‘We’re not getting them in fast enough,’ says East Jerusalem bookshop owner
Sally Rooney’s books have seen a surge of interest among Palestinians since the Irish author declined to sell the translation rights of her latest book, Beautiful World, Where Are You to an Israeli publishing house to support a cultural boycott of the country.