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Belinda McKeon (born 1979) is an Irish writer. She is the author of two novels, Solace, which won the 2011 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Tender (2015).
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Belinda McKeon (born 1979) is an Irish writer. She is the author of two novels, Solace, which won the 2011 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Tender (2015).
McKeon was born in Longford and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Dublin (UCD). From 2000 to 2010 she worked for The Irish Times , writing on theatre, literature and the arts. In 2005 she moved to New York City, where she completed an MFA at Columbia University.
McKeon's first novel, Solace, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize [1] and the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award and was named Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year in 2011, [2] as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [3] The Economist called Solace "a warm and wise debut", [4] while The Irish Times described it as "at once a moving and gracefully etched story of human loss and interconnection set in contemporary Ireland and a deeply affecting meditation on being in the world". [5]
Her second novel Tender was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Reviewing it for the Irish Times, author John Boyne called Tender "the best Irish novel I've read since The Spinning Heart, a work rich with wisdom, truth and beauty.", [6] while the Guardian called it "richly nuanced and utterly absorbing." [7] Tender was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the 2015 Irish Book Awards. [8]
In 2015, McKeon edited A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, a collection of new short stories on the theme of distance by 17 international contemporary writers [9] The collection is published by Tramp Press.
McKeon is also a playwright and her produced plays include Word of Mouth (an RTE radio drama, 2005), Drapes (Dublin, 2006), and Graham and Frost (Irish Theatre Festival, New York, 2010).
From 2008 to 2011, she curated the DLR Poetry Now Festival in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and, with her husband Aengus Woods, she has curated the annual Poetry Fest at the Irish Arts Center, New York, since 2009.
In 2022 McKeon became the head of Maynooth University's Master of Arts in Creative Writing. [10] She previously was Associate Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University [11]
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