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]
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 in 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]
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] A Shock was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Award.
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]
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 in 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]
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] A Shock was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Award.