Author

Claire Keegan

Irish fiction writer; shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for Small Things Like These.
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Irish short fiction, novellasKnown for

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like Thesewas shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Born1968 · County Wicklow, Ireland
Notable works Small Things Like TheseFosterAntarctica
HonoursRooney Prize for Irish Literature (1999) · William Trevor Prize · Booker Prize shortlist (2022)
New to Claire Keegan? Start here Small Things Like These

A quiet, devastating novella about moral courage in Catholic Ireland — the finest introduction to Keegan's precise, powerful prose.

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