Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in County Wicklow. Her works are translated into thirty five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields received the Edge Hill Prize. Foster earned the Davy Byrnes Award. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, winning the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. So Late in the Day, first published in The New Yorker, was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Keegan was named Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year in 2023. In 2024 she was presented with the Markievicz Award from the Arts Council, and the Siegfried Lenz Award in Hamburg. This year, Irish Times readers chose Small Things Like These as their Book of the Century, and The Sunday Times critics named it as Irish novel of the Century.