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Claire Keegan
File:Claire Keegan by Cartier-Bresson.jpg
Born1968 (age 55–56)
County Wicklow, Ireland
OccupationShort story writer
Notable worksAntarctica
Walk the Blue Fields
"Foster"
Small Things like These
Notable awardsRooney Prize for Irish Literature
2000
Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award
2009
Website
ckfictionclinic.com

Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her award-winning short stories. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review; and translated into 20 languages.[1][2]

Biography

Born in County Wicklow in 1968, she is the youngest of a large Roman Catholic family. Keegan traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was seventeen and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992 and later lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she undertook an MA in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales.

Keegan's first collection of short stories Antarctica (1999) won a slew of awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year.[3] Her second collection of much awarded short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's acclaimed 'long, short story' "Foster" won the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009 [4] American writer Richard Ford, who selected "Foster" as winner, wrote of Keegan's “thrilling” instinct for the right words and her “patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality".[5] Foster appeared in the New Yorker and was declared the “Best of the Year” by the New Yorker. It was later published by Faber and Faber in longer form. "Foster" is now included as a text for the Irish Leaving Certificate.[6]

Keegan lives in rural Ireland.

List of works

Awards and honours

Keegan has won the inaugural William Trevor Prize,[5] the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature,[5] the Olive Cook Award and the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009.[5] Other awards include The Hugh Leonard Bursary, The Macaulay Fellowship,[5] The Martin Healy Prize, The Kilkenny Prize and The Tom Gallon Award. Twice was Keegan the recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was also a Wingate Scholar. She was a visiting professor at Villanova University in 2008. Keegan was the Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence in the Celtic Studies Department of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto in March 2009.[7] In 2019, she was appointed as Writing Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.[8] Pembroke College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin selected Keegan as the 2021 Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow.[9] The French version of Claire's new novel, Ce genre de petites choses, has been shortlisted for two prestigious awards: the Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award [10] and the Grand Prix de L'Heroine Madame Figaro.[11] In March 2021, Claire and her French translator, Jacqueline Odin, won the Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award.[12]

Claire is a member of Aosdána.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Claire Keegan: 'Short stories are limited. I'm cornered into writing what I can' Interview". the Guardian. September 4, 2010.
  2. ^ Barrett, Colin. "In praise of Claire Keegan, by Colin Barrett". The Irish Times.
  3. ^ "The long and the short of the short story". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Writer Claire Keegan wins €25,000 Davy Byrnes award". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e Boland, Rosita (2009-06-23). "Writer Claire Keegan wins €25,000 Davy Byrnes award". The Irish Times.
  6. ^ "What to read on holiday in . . . Ireland". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  7. ^ "SMC Sponsored Programs - Celtic Studies - Ireland Fund Artist-in-Residence Program | University of St. Michael's College". stmikes.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  8. ^ webmaster, Arts Council (October 12, 2019). "Writer-in-Residence/Fellowship Appointments 2019/2020". www.artscouncil.ie.
  9. ^ "2021 Briena Staunton Visiting Fellowship Awarded to Claire Keegan". Claire Keegan Fiction Writing Courses. July 29, 2020.
  10. ^ "Discover the authors nominated for the Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award 2021". Ambassade de France en Irlande - French Embassy in Ireland.
  11. ^ "MADAME FIGARO, finalistes du Grand Prix de l'Héroïne 2021, vendredi 12 février 2021 | Revue de presse • SABINE WESPIESER ÉDITEUR".
  12. ^ "Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award Ceremony 2021". Ambassade de France en Irlande - French Embassy in Ireland.
  13. ^ "Literature". Aosdána.
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