Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author most recently of A Shock (Picador, New Directions, 2021), which was the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize.
He is also the author of the novels Hawthorn & Child(2012), Animals (2007), The Parts (2003), and The Long Falling (1998), as well as short stories and novellas. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Stinging Fly, and others.
He has been awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. He lives in south London.
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