** Please Note – This Event is now Fully Booked **

Internationally acclaimed author of Foster, Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields. Aosdána member Claire Keegan joins our City & County Librarian, Mary Conway for a look at her writing life in Waterford Central Library on Saturday 26th October from 8:00pm.

This is a free event, but booking is essential. Please contact Waterford Central Library on 051 849975 for bookings and information. 
A selection of books will be available for sale on the evening.

Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are critically acclaimed, international bestsellers — and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award— the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction category. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Award presented in Hamburg.

Mary Conway has been passionate about books and reading all her life. She started the Writers at Waterford Libraries programme in 2023 and is currently City and County Librarian with Waterford City and County Council.

This event is part of the Waterford Writers Weekend 2024.

View and download the full Waterford Writers Weekend programme.