Claire Keegan - Biography

Claire Keegan

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Born in County Wicklow in 1968, she is the youngest in a large Roman Catholic family.

Caegan traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was 17 and studied English and political science at Loyola University.

She returned to Ireland in 1992, after which she lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales.

She subsequently received an MA in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin and Keegan's first collection of stories, Antarctica (1999), won numerous awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the William Trevor Prize, and was one of the Los Angeles Times' best books of 20012.

She's second collection of award-winning short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's "Long and Short Story" by Keegan won Foster the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award as award judge Richard Ford, who chose Foster to be The winner, she wrote of Keegan's "exciting" instinct for the right words and her "patient concern with the enormous consequences and end of life." List of the Year's Best"; later published by Faber and Faber in a longer form. Foster is now included as a transcript of Ireland's leaving certificate. Foster was adapted for film in 2021 and released as the acclaimed An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) in May 2022. Late 2021 Keegan published another novel, Small Things Like This, described as a "strong book in time", set in Ireland in the mid-1980s.

Keegan won the inaugural William Trevor Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Olive Cook Prize and the 2009 Davy Burns Prize for Irish Writing.

Other awards include the Hugh Leonard Scholarship, Macaulay Fellowship, Martin Healy Award, Kilkenny Award and Tom Gallon Award.

She also received the 2002 Wingate Scholar Award and twice received the Francis MacManus Award. She was a visiting professor at Villanova University in 2008.

Keegan was the Artist-in-Residence of the Ireland Trust in the Department of Celtic Studies at St Michael's College at the University of Toronto in March 2009. [12] In 2019, she was appointed a Writing Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Pembroke College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin have selected Keegan as their 2021 Visiting Fellow Brianna Staunton.

The French translation of "Small Things Like This" (Ce genre de petites choses) has been nominated for two prestigious awards: the Francophone Literary Prize for Ambassadors and the Grand Prix de L'Heroine Madame Figaro. In March 2021, Claire and her French translator Jacqueline Auden won the Francophone Literary Ambassadors Award. Claire has been a member of Aosdána since 2008.