Name: In conversation with Claire Keegan
Start: 2022-11-19T18:30:00Z
End: 2022-11-19T20:30:00Z
Location: Blessington Library

In conversation with Claire Keegan

Wicklow County Council Arts Office

Join award winning writer Claire Keegan for a reading from her novel Small Things Like These...

Blessington Library

...followed by conversation moderated by local writer Philip St John.A﻿bout Claire KeeganRaised on a farm in Wicklow, Claire’s works are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — and was recently named by The Times UK as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st Century. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Her novel, Small Things Like These, won the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs en Irlande for the best Irish novel published in France. It was then shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded to the best new work of literature published anywhere in the world in the English language, regardless of form. It has also been shortlisted for the Dalkey Prize Novel of the Year. It has won the Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is now shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Gold Crown for fiction. Claire Keegan is also renowned as a lecturer and has held several fellowships, most recently lecturing at Trinity College, Dublin and at Cambridge University. She is to be awarded Woman of the Year for Literature, 2022. A﻿bout Philip St JohnPhilip has written four plays. The Sylvia was staged in Smock Alley (2013) and toured Italy in translation (2017-19). Temptress ran at Mermaid Arts Centre and The New Theatre in 2015 and was re-staged in 2019. An American production company has bought the film rights. Philip’s short stories have been published in New Irish Writing and various anthologies. He is currently working on a number of Arts Council funded theatre and fiction projects.

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