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Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist.[1] An author,[2][3][4] he has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction."[5]

This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (May 2008)

Writings

Horses, Ridgway's first published work of fiction, appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997.[6] In 1998 The Long Falling was published by Faber & Faber, London. It was adapted into a film by French director Martin Provost in 2011: Où va la nuit.[7] A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, appeared in 2000, followed by Ridgway's third novel, The Parts, in 2003. Both were published by Faber & Faber. In 2006 Animals was published by 4th Estate, London. A short story, "Goo Book," was published in the April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker magazine.[8] Hawthorn & Child, was published by New Directions on 2013.[9] His first novel in eight years, A Shock, was published by Picador in June 2021. Ridgway's novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in France,[10] Italy,[11] and Germany.[12]

Awards

Keith Ridgway was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2001.[2] That same year The Long Falling received the Prix Femina Étranger (translated as "Mauvaise Pente").[13] Ridgway's short story "Rothko Eggs" won the O. Henry Award in 2012 and was anthologized in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories that year.[4]

References

External links

• Keith Ridgway on "Goo Book" in The New Yorker Blog: Book Bench
• Entry at Irish Writers On Line
• Keith Ridgway on Twitter^{[permanent dead link]}
• Keith Ridgway at New Directions

На других языках

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[fr] Keith Ridgway

Keith Ridgway, né en 1965 à Dublin (Irlande), est un écrivain irlandais.

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