Claire Keegan

Claire
Keegan

Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world and was brought to the screen as the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl which has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the Best International Film category.

Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world and was brought to the screen as the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl which has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the Best International Film category.

Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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