An Evening with Claire Keegan – Booker Prize Nominee – Tramore Library
Waterford Libraries are delighted to welcome Booker Prize nominee, Claire Keegan to Tramore Library to read from her celebrated book ‘Small Things Like These’ on Thursday 8th December at 7pm.
Claire is also the author of ‘Foster’, recently filmed as ‘An Cailín Ciúin’, and her story collections, ‘Walk the Blue Fields’ and ‘Antartica’.
Free event – please contact Tramore Library on 051 849594 or email slangan@waterfordcouncil.ie to book your space.
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow.
Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. The judge was Hilary Mantel.
Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story, judged by Richard Ford. Foster was chosen by The Times UK as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st Century.
Her novel, Small Things Like These, won the Ambassador’s Prize for best Irish novel published in France, The Kerry Group Prize for Best Irish Novel, The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for both the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize.
Keegan last month received Tatler Woman of the Year Award in Ireland for Literature. Her work is translated into thirty languages.
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