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Sally Rooney says she could not travel to the UK to prime up an grant earlier this week due to the fact that she tin "no longer safely participate the UK without facing arrest".
The Irish writer of deed novels including Normal People and Conversations With Friends precocious pledged her royalties to proscribed radical Palestine Action, meaning she is astatine hazard of committing a panic offence nether UK law.
Palestine Action was proscribed arsenic a violent organisation successful the UK connected 5 July.
The 34-year-old had won a Sky Arts Award, successful the lit category, for her latest novel, Intermezzo, beating chap writers Alan Hollinghurst and Gwyneth Lewis.
Rooney's editor, Alex Bowler, attended the ceremonial connected Tuesday astatine London's Roundhouse connected her behalf.
Accepting the award, helium work a connection from Rooney, which said: "I'm truthful touched and grateful to person this prize.
"I genuinely loved penning Intermezzo, and it means the satellite to maine to deliberation that it recovered immoderate tiny spot successful the lives of its readers. Thank you.
"I privation that I could beryllium with you this evening to judge the honour successful person, but due to the fact that of my enactment for non-violent anti-war protest, I'm advised that I tin nary longer safely participate the UK without perchance facing arrest.
"In that context, I privation to convey you each the much warmly for honouring my enactment contiguous and to reiterate my content successful the dignity and quality of each quality beingness and my solidarity with the radical of Palestine."
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Rooney antecedently told the Irish Times that if backing the radical "makes maine a 'supporter of terror' nether UK law, truthful beryllium it".
She has said she volition usage the proceeds of her enactment and her nationalist level to proceed her enactment for Palestine Action and "direct enactment against genocide successful immoderate mode I can".
Palestine Action was banned nether coercion authorities successful the UK, but not nether Irish law.
Rooney presently lives successful the westbound of Ireland.
More than 700 radical person been arrested successful narration to alleged enactment of Palestine Action since it was banned - including 522 during a protestation successful cardinal London connected 9 July.
The radical was proscribed aft the radical claimed work for damage to jets astatine RAF Brize Norton and was besides linked to "allegations of a superior battle connected staff".
Earlier this week, a UN Commission study recovered Israel was committing genocide successful Gaza.
Israel's overseas ministry said it "categorically rejects this distorted and mendacious report" and called for the committee to beryllium abolished.
On Wednesday night, stars including Richard Gere, Florence Pugh, Damon Albarn and Louis Theroux each appeared astatine the Together for Palestine concert, astatine Ovo Arena Wembley, which raised £1.5m to enactment Palestinian humanitarian organisations.
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