Claire Keegan
Irish writer
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| February 15 2024 | The film adaptation of 'Small Things like These', starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, and Eileen Walsh, had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. |
| 2023 | Keegan was named 'Author of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards, with her book So Late in the Day also shortlisted for 'Novel of the Year'. |
| 2023 | 'So Late in the Day' was released in a hardback edition by Faber. |
| 2023 | Published her fourth short story collection 'So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men' through Grove Press in New York. |
| 2022 | Small Things like These won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, becoming the shortest book ever shortlisted. |
| 2022 | Keegan's story 'Foster' was adapted into the film 'An Cailín Ciúin' (The Quiet Girl) by writer/director Colm Bairéad. |
| February 21 2022 | Keegan published her short story 'So Late in the Day' in The New Yorker. |
| 2021 | Keegan was selected as the Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow by Pembroke College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin. |
| November 2021 | Keegan published the novella 'Small Things like These', set in Ireland in the mid-1980s, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. |
| March 2021 | Keegan and her French translator Jacqueline Odin won the Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award for the French translation of Small Things like These. |
| 2019 | Keegan was appointed as Writing Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. |
| 2019 | Published her third short story collection 'The Forester's Daughter' through Faber and Faber in London. |
| February 15 2010 | 'Foster' was published in The New Yorker and later included in The Best American Short Stories 2011. |
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