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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 · With Small Things Like These shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Claire Keegan talks about the importance of restraint, why she’s more interested in tension than drama… and why not writing is more difficult than writing
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, 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 ...
Nov 30, 2023 · Books. A Masterful Depiction of Male Cruelty. For decades, Claire Keegan has been exploring the shabby way the world treats women. By Joanna Biggs. Ireland, 1978 ( Josef Koudelka / Magnum)...
Claire Keegan is an Irish novelist and short story writer, whose work has won many awards and been translated into 30 languages. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022 for her novel Small Things Like These, which explores the silence and complicity of a community in denial.
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,...
