![]() ![]() Foster, a novella, won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. The film adaptation, starring Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong, is currently in production.Īntarctica, Keegan’s first collection of short stories, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her second, Walk the Blue Fields, won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. ![]() It was also Waterstones’ best performing Fiction Book of the Month in 2022, with Waterstones’ Head of Fiction, Bea Carvalho, describing it as ‘one of Waterstones’ stand out successes of 2022’. The book was a number #1 bestseller in Ireland and was on the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback and paperback for 7 weeks. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors’ Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Small Things Like Thesewas shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into more than thirty languages. ![]()
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