Claire Keegan was born in Wexford in 1968.
Her awards include The Francis MacManus Award; The William Trevor Prize; the Olive Cook Award; the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; the Rooney Prize for Literature, and Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009, judged by Richard Ford. A member of Aosdána, she lives in Co. Wexford.
Books in order of publication:
Antarctica – 1999
Walk the Blue Fields: Stories – 2007
Foster – 2010
The Forester’s Daughter – 2019
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