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Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, the O. Henry Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Ridgway was born in 1965 in Dublin. [1] He has lived in London and Dublin [2] and currently lives in south London. [3] [4] [5] [6] He has described himself as a queer, Irish, male writer [2] and has said he is "a Dubliner for life". [2]
Ridgway's first published work of fiction was the novella Horses, which appeared in the Faber First Fictions series (Volume 13) in 1997. [1] [7]
In 1998, Ridgway's debut novel, The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London. [1] The French translation, Mauvaise Pente, was published in 2001. [8] It won the Prix Femina Étranger [9] [10] [11] and the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. [12] It was adapted into a film, Où va la nuit , by French director Martin Provost in 2011. [13]
A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, was published by Faber & Faber in 2001. It was translated into French, German, and Dutch [14] and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. [15] [16] [17]
Ridgway's second novel, The Parts, was published by Faber & Faber in 2003. [18] [19] In 2006, his next novel, Animals, was published by 4th Estate, London. [20] [21]
Ridgway's short story, 'Goo Book', was published in the April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker magazine. [22] [23] In the same year, his short story, 'Rothko Eggs', was published in Zoetrope: All Story. [24] It won the O. Henry Award in 2012 and was anthologized in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories that year. [25]
Both these stories later became part [2] [26] of Ridgway's third novel, Hawthorn & Child, published by New Directions in 2013. [27] [28] [29] [30]
After an eight year gap, Ridgway's next novel, A Shock , was published by Picador in June 2021. [31] [32] It was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize [33] [34] and it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [35] [36]
Ridgway has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction". [37] His novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in France, [38] Italy, [39] and Germany. [40]
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