Claire Keegan

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Claire Keegan (2007)

Claire Keegan (born 1968 in County Wicklow ) is an Irish writer . She was best known for her short stories .

Life

Keegan was born in 1968, the youngest child of a Catholic family, in County Wicklow, Ireland, where she grew up on a farm. After studying political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, she earned a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and an M.Phil from Trinity College Dublin in 1992 .

Keegan is a member of Aosdána .

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Keegan became known in 1999 with Antarctica , a collection of short stories for which she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2000. Another collection of short stories followed in 2007 with the release of Walk the Blue Fields . For her story Foster , first published in 2009 , Keegan received the prestigious Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009. The story was published in 2010 in the US magazine New Yorker and was named the best story of the year.

Publications

German editions
  • Where the water is deepest. (Original title: Antarctica ). Translated from the English by Inge Leipold and Hans-Christian Oeser . Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-88243-982-3 .
  • Through the blue fields. (Original title: Walk the Blue Fields ). Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-86521-664-9 .
  • The third light. (Original title: Foster ). Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-609-4 .
  • Love in the tall grass - Collected stories. Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-373-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait in Aosdána , accessed on April 17, 2019
  2. ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/15/foster
personal data
SURNAME Keegan, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH County Wicklow , Ireland