Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author of A Shock which was the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2021, and shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize.
He is also the author of the novels Hawthorn & Child, Animals, The Parts, and The Long Falling, as well as short stories and novellas. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Stinging Fly, and others.
A new novel, Dooneen, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions in 2026.
He has been awarded the O. Henry Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger in France, and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. He lives in south London.
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