Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway (born October 2, 1965 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer .
Ridgway was born in Dublin in 1965. There is no information about his early years; In literary terms he first drew attention to himself in 1997 with the story Horses, set in a small Irish town . Since then he has published four novels and a collection of short stories. In German, Ridgway published his first story Horses and the short story collection Standard Time at Wagenbach, as well as the novel Hawthorn and Child at Rauch 2015 . Ridgway lives in London (as of early 2020).
Awards (selection)
- 2001 - Prix Femina Étranger for Mauvaise Pente (French edition of The Long Falling )
- 2001 - Prix du premier roman étranger for Mauvaise Pente
- 2001 - Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Standard Time
- 2003 - Nomination of The Parts as “Irish Book of the Year”
Works
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Horses , short story, Faber First Fictions, Faber & Faber, London 1997
- German cloud horses , Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8031-2541-5
- The Long Falling , Roman, Faber & Faber, London 1998
- Fruit , Story in the anthology “Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium”, Alyson Books , New York City 2000, ISBN 1555835171
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Standard Time , Short Stories, Faber & Faber, London 2001
- German standard time. Stories , Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8031-3209-3
- The Parts , Roman, Faber & Faber, London 2003
- Animals , Roman, 4th Estate, London 2006
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Hawthorn & Child , Roman, New Directions, New York City 2013
- German Hawthorn and Child. Novel . From the English by Jan Valk . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7920-0363-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Keith Ridgway in the catalog of the German National Library
- Keith Ridgway on perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Message on the Wagenbach author's page ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Publishing house at Faber & Faber (with photo)
- ↑ Review of Normalzeit by Bernd Kessinger on "raumK" , May 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ridgway, Keith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |