

Keegan was also a Wingate scholar and won a full scholarship to attend Trinity College. Phil in Creative Writing, Trinity College, Dublin, 1999.Īll degrees conferred with first class honours.

Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award - then the world’s richest prize for a story - was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland.

Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border.
