Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in co. Wicklow, Ireland and now, her stories are now translated into more than thirty languages.
‘Antarctica’ won the William Trevor Prize, the Francis MacManus Award, The Kilkenny Prize, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. ‘Walk the Blue Fields’ won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. The adjudicator was Hilary Mantel. ‘Foster’ won the Davy Byrnes Award, then the world’s richest prize for a single short story, judged by Richard Ford. Foster went on last year to be chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century.