Keith Ridgway

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

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.[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] The author's most recent work, Hawthorn & Child, was published by New Directions on September 27, 2013.[9] 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.[13] That same year The Long Falling received the Prix Femina Étranger (translated as "Mauvaise Pente").[14] 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.[15]

References

  1. ↑ http://grantabooks.com/Keith-Ridgway
  2. ↑ http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/writers/rooney-prize.php
  3. ↑ http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/mauvaise-pente_798034.html
  4. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/
  5. ↑ O'Toole, Fintan (29 December 2012). "Ten things that helped make life worth living in 2012". The Irish Times.
  6. ↑ http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/keith-ridgway
  7. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825282/
  8. ↑ Keith Ridgway, Fiction, “Goo Book,” The New Yorker, April 11, 2011, p. 62
  9. ↑ http://ndbooks.com/author/keith-ridgway
  10. ↑ http://www.10-18.fr/site/mauvaise_pente_&104&9782264046819.html?RECHA=mauvaise+pente
  11. ↑ http://www.castelvecchieditore.com/hawthorn-e-child/
  12. ↑ http://www.wagenbach.de/autoren/autor/130-keith-ridgway.html
  13. ↑ http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/writers/rooney-prize.php
  14. ↑ http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/121,prix-femina-roman-etranger.html
  15. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/

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