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Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers – and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award – the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.

Books by Claire Keegan

Author Videos

Claire Keegan Booker Prize Interview
Sharon Horgan reads from Small Things Like These

Author Videos

Claire Keegan Booker Prize Interview
Claire Keegan Booker Prize Interview
Sharon Horgan reads from Small Things Like These
Sharon Horgan reads from Small Things Like These

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘‘Wastes not a word . . . Exquisite.’ ’

Hilary Mantel

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘‘Claire Keegan makes her moments real — and then she makes them matter.’ ’

Colm Tóibín

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’

Times

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘'Masterful . . . A timely and powerful book.’’

Irish Times

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘‘A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love.’ ’

Observer

Praise for Claire Keegan

‘‘Goes straight to the heart – it is both precise and beautiful. A true gift of a book.’ ’

Andrew O'Hagan

Quotes from Claire Keegan

‘He thought of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.’

Small Things Like These
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