Keith Ridgway Explained

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]

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 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]

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Keith Ridgway | Our Authors | Granta Books . 2013-08-29 . 2013-07-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130728103506/http://grantabooks.com/Keith-Ridgway . dead .
  2. Web site: The Rooney Prize for Literature - Writers - Oscar Wilde Centre : Trinity College Dublin. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091117120424/http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/writers/rooney-prize.php. 2009-11-17.
  3. Web site: Eire de misère. 15 November 2001.
  4. Web site: The O. Henry Prize Collection.
  5. News: Fintan . O'Toole . Ten things that helped make life worth living in 2012. The Irish Times . 29 December 2012.
  6. Web site: Keith Ridgway . 2013-07-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130512223424/http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/keith-ridgway . 2013-05-12 .
  7. Web site: Où va la nuit. IMDb.
  8. Keith Ridgway, Fiction, “Goo Book,” The New Yorker, April 11, 2011, p. 62
  9. Web site: Keith Ridgway. 28 January 2013.
  10. Web site: 10/18, tous les livres de la maison d'édition | Lisez. www.10-18.fr . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025452/http://www.10-18.fr/site/mauvaise_pente_%26104%269782264046819.html?RECHA=mauvaise+pente . 2016-03-04.
  11. Web site: Hawthorn e Child | Castelvecchi Editore . 2013-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130718170102/http://www.castelvecchieditore.com/hawthorn-e-child/ . 2013-07-18 . dead .
  12. Web site: Keith Ridgway - Verlag Klaus Wagenbach.
  13. Web site: Prix Femina - Roman Etranger.

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