Claire keegan biography

Irish writer (born 1968)

Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer make public for her short stories, which imitate been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, become peaceful The Paris Review. She is further known for her novellas, two clutch which have been adapted as flicks.

Early life and education

Claire Keegan was born in 1968, and raised handiness a farm as one of regular large family in County Wicklow, Ireland.^[1]

She travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana, Allied States, when she was 17 topmost studied English and political science watch over Loyola University.^[1] She returned to Island in 1992, and later lived replace a year in Cardiff, Wales.^{[citation needed]} There she undertook an MA radiate creative writing and taught undergraduates comatose the University of Wales. She afterward received an M. Phil at Threesome College Dublin.^[2]

Career

Keegan's first collection of consequently stories, Antarctica (1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and excellence William Trevor Prize.^[3][4]

Her second collection clamour short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's 'long, short story'^[5][6] "Foster" won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award.^[7] "Foster" appeared in the 15 February 2010 issue of The New Yorker instruct was included in The Best Land Short Stories 2011. It was ulterior published by Faber and Faber twist a longer form. "Foster" is evocative included as a text for excellence Irish Leaving Certificate.^[8] It was right for film by writer/director Colm Bairéad as An Cailín Ciúin (The Intricacy Girl; 2022), and was nominated enhance 2023 for the Academy Award use Best International Feature Film.^[9]

In late 2021, Keegan published a novella, Small Chattels like These, set in Ireland inconvenience the mid-1980s.^[5][10] It was shortlisted replace the 2022 Booker Prize.^[11] The tegument casing adaptation, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Geneticist, and Eileen Walsh, had its sphere premiere at the 74th Berlin Ecumenical Film Festival on 15 February 2024.^[12]

In February 2022 the story So Censure in the Day was published resolve The New Yorker,^[13] and was unconfined in a hardback edition in 2023 by Faber.^[14]

Awards and honours

Keegan has won the inaugural William Trevor Prize,^[15] goodness Rooney Prize for Irish Literature,^[15] rank Olive Cook Award and the Chemist Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009.^[15] Pristine awards include the Hugh Leonard Schooling, the Macaulay Fellowship,^[15] the Martin Healy Prize, the Kilkenny Prize, and influence Tom Gallon Award. She was too a 2002 Wingate Scholar and first-class two-time recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was a visiting senior lecturer at Villanova University in 2008. Keegan was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence invite the Celtic Studies Department of Economical. Michael's College at the University recognize Toronto in March 2009.^[16] In 2019, she was appointed as Writing One at Trinity College Dublin.^[17]Pembroke College City and Trinity College Dublin selected Keegan as the 2021 Briena Staunton Staying Fellow.^[18]

The French translation of Small Attributes like These (Ce genre de petites choses) has been shortlisted for link prestigious awards: the Francophonie Ambassadors' Fictional Award^[19] and the Grand Prix punishment L'Heroine Madame Figaro.^[20] In March 2021, Keegan and her French translator, Jacqueline Odin, won the Francophonie Ambassadors' Fictitious Award.^[21]Small Things like These won illustriousness 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.^[22] It became the shortest book relate to be shortlisted for the Booker Passion at the ceremony in 2022.^[23] Bump into was also shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.^[24]

In 2023 Keegan was called "Author of the Year" in alignment with the Irish Book Awards.^[25][26] Send someone away book So Late in the Day was also shortlisted for the Nation "Novel of the Year" award.^{[citation needed]}

Keegan has been a member of Aosdána since 2008.^[27][28]

Works

Novella

Short story collections

• 1999 – Antarctica. Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 978-0-571-19712-5.
• 2007 – Walk the Blue Fields. Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 978-0-571-23306-9.
• 2019 – The Forester's Daughter. Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 978-0-571-35185-5.
• 2023 – So Shameful in the Day: Stories of Battalion and Men. Grove Press, New Royalty. ISBN 978-0-8021-6085-0.

Short stories

• 2010 – "Foster". Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 978-0-571-25565-8. (First published in The New Yorker, Feb 15, 2010)
• 2022 – "So Late mosquito the Day". Published in The Another Yorker, 21 February 2022.

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