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Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review.
Sep 23, 2022 · Claire Keegan talks about her short novel Small Things Like These, which explores the impact of a hidden atrocity in Ireland. She discusses her writing process, her characters, her themes and her views on the Booker Prize.
Nov 5, 2022 · Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity. Keegan doesn’t write much, or publish often. But when she does, critics, readers and booksellers take notice. “Every good story is told with ...
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin. Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year.
Nov 5, 2021 · March 25, 2022. “Small Things Like These” is a novella mascaraing as a novel. Set in the mid 1980’s in a small Irish village, author Claire Keegan writes an almost passive novel highlighting Ireland’s ugly relationship with the Magdalene laundries.
Nov 1, 2022 · Claire Keegan has been compared to the Russian author Anton Chekhov and fellow Irish writer William Trevor. She shares their keen sense of empathy, eye for the telling detail, and...
Dec 22, 2021 · In Claire Keegan's feminist take on Dickens, a boy born to an unwed teen builds a life as a coal merchant, husband, and father to five daughters,...