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Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

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Foster

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So Late in the Day: The Sunday Times bestseller

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So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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Antarctica

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Walk the Blue Fields

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The Forester's Daughter

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Claire Keegan 4 Books Set

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Little Things Like This

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Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in co. Wicklow, Ireland and now, her stories are now translated into more than thirty languages.

‘Antarctica’ won the William Trevor Prize, the Francis MacManus Award, The Kilkenny Prize, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. ‘Walk the Blue Fields’ won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. The adjudicator was Hilary Mantel. ‘Foster’ won the Davy Byrnes Award, then the world’s richest prize for a single short story, judged by Richard Ford. Foster went on last year to be chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century.

‘Small Things Like These&#; was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the finest work of literature, regardless of form, to be published anywhere in the English language. It also won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political

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Reading by Claire Keegan

DCU and St Pat's College Writer in Residence.
Thursday, 30th May at 11am in CG

Biography

Claire Keegan grew up on the Wicklow / Wexford border, studied Literature and Politics at Loyola University, New Orleans, and subsequently earned an MA at the University of Wales and an in Trinity College, Dublin. Her debut, Antarctica was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. The Observer called these stories "among the finest recently written in English". In , Walk the Blue Fields, was published to huge critical acclaim and went on to win The Edge Hill Prize for the strongest collection published in The British Isles that year. Foster () won The Davy Byrnes Award, judged by Richard Ford: "Keegan is a rarity - someone I will always want to read." The story was subsequently published by Faber, abridged for The New Yorker, shortlisted for the Kerry Fiction Prize and published in Best American Stories, . Her stories have been translated into 12 langua