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Claire Keegan


Ireland (b.1968)

Claire Keegan was born in 1968 and grew up on a farm in Wicklow, the youngest of a large Catholic family. She travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was seventeen and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992. She started writing in 1994 and lived for a year in Cardiff. She took an MA in Creative Writing and taught undergraduates for a year at the University of Wales.
 

Awards: Orwell (2022)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Foster (2010)
   Small Things Like These (2021)
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Collections
   Antarctica (1999)
   Walk the Blue Fields (2007)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   So Late in the Day (2023)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Claire Keegan
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Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass
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The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Geraldine Brooks

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Awards
2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction : Small Things Like These

Award nominations
2024 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : So Late in the Day
2022 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Small Things Like These
2022 HWA Gold Crown Award (shortlist) : Small Things Like These
2022 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Small Things Like These


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