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Claire Keegan

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Wexford, Ireland

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Claire Keegan was born in Wexford in 1968.
Her story collections are Antarctica (London, Faber and Faber, 1999/New York, Grove/Atlantic, 1999); Walk the Blue Fields (Faber and Faber, 2007/ Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008); and the single story Foster (Faber and Faber, 2010).
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.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 639 ratings · 157 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Walk the Blue Fields: Stories 3.84 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Foster 4.18 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Antarctica 3.99 avg rating — 130 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dove L'acqua È Più Profonda 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Davy Byrnes Stories: The Six Prize Winning Stories From The 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award As Selected By Richard Ford by Claire Keegan (Editor), Mary Leland, Molly McCloskey 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Tres luces 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Recorre los campos azules 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Nei Campi Azzurri by Claire Keegan, Massimiliano Morini (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”
― Claire Keegan

tags: emotions , heart , turmoil

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“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”
― Claire Keegan

tags: change , self

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“I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores.”
― Claire Keegan, Antarctica

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