Claire Keegan Biography

Reading by Claire Keegan

DCU and St Pat's College Writer in Residence.
Thursday, 30th May 2013 at 11am in CG86.

Biography

Claire Keegan grew up on the Wicklow / Wexford border, studied Literature and Politics at Loyola University, New Orleans, and subsequently earned an MA at the University of Wales and an M.Phil in Trinity College, Dublin. Her debut, Antarctica was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. The Observer called these stories "among the finest recently written in English". In 2007, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to huge critical acclaim and went on to win The Edge Hill Prize for the strongest collection published in The British Isles that year. Foster (2010) won The Davy Byrnes Award, judged by Richard Ford: "Keegan is a rarity - someone I will always want to read." The story was subsequently published by Faber, abridged for The New Yorker, shortlisted for the 2010 Kerry Fiction Prize and published in Best American Stories, 2010. Her stories have been translated into 12 languages. "Every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion" Hilary Mantel. A member of Aosdana, Keegan now lives on the Wexford coast.