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Claire Keegan


Born
in Wexford, Ireland
January 01, 1968

Genre
Contemporary, Fiction, Short Stories


Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin.

Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her second, Walk the Blue Fields, was Richard Ford’s book of the year. Her works have won several awards including The Hugh Leonard Bursary, The Macaulay Fellowship, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, The Martin Healy Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Tom Gallon Award and The William Trevor Prize, judged by William Trevor. Twice was Keegan the recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was also a Wingate ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 686,512 ratings · 82,655 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Small Things Like These
4.09 avg rating — 424,515 ratings — published 2021
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Foster
4.31 avg rating — 160,293 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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So Late in the Day
3.95 avg rating — 31,264 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions
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So Late in the Day: Stories...
3.93 avg rating — 28,423 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions
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Antarctica
3.84 avg rating — 17,107 ratings — published 1999
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Walk the Blue Fields
4.01 avg rating — 11,001 ratings — published 2007 — 50 editions
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The Forester's Daughter
4.07 avg rating — 5,118 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Claire Keegan 4 Books Set
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Quotes by Claire Keegan  (?)
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“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
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“Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster
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“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
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Time for the poll for April's novella.
Listed below are the books nominated.
Good Luck everyone.
The poll will remain open until March 28th.
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