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
editHorses, 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
editKeith 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.
References
edit- ^ "Keith Ridgway | Our Authors | Granta Books". Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ a b "The Rooney Prize for Literature - Writers - Oscar Wilde Centre : Trinity College Dublin". Archived from the original on 17 November 2009.
- ^ "Eire de misère". 15 November 2001.
- ^ a b "The O. Henry Prize Collection".
- ^ O'Toole, Fintan (29 December 2012). "Ten things that helped make life worth living in 2012". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Keith Ridgway". Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- ^ "Où va la nuit". IMDb.
- ^ Keith Ridgway, Fiction, “Goo Book,” The New Yorker, April 11, 2011, p. 62
- ^ "Keith Ridgway". 28 January 2013.
- ^ "10/18, tous les livres de la maison d'édition | Lisez". www.10-18.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "Hawthorn e Child | Castelvecchi Editore". Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ "Keith Ridgway - Verlag Klaus Wagenbach".
- ^ "Prix Femina - Roman Etranger".