Kevin Barry among authors backing Sally Rooney’s boycott of an Israeli publisher

Kamila Shamsie, Monica Ali and China Miéville are among those who have signed a letter organised by Artists for Palestine

Sally Rooney. Picture: Kalpesh Lathigra

Major authors including Kamila Shamsie, Monica Ali and China Miéville have backed Sally Rooney’s decision not to sell translation rights to an Israeli publisher, describing it as an “exemplary response to the mounting injustices inflicted on Palestinians”.

Rooney turned down an offer to sell Hebrew translation rights in her new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, to the publisher Modan, which had published her previous two books, and which had put in a bid.