An Evening with Claire Keegan

In Conversation with Alex Clark

Saturday August 30th - St Caimin’s Church Of Ireland - V94YX60 - 7.30pm

€15 - €12 student

Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into more than 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 and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors’ Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. So Late in the Day was a Sunday Times bestseller.

 Alex Clark is a literary journalist and editor who has written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Times Literary Supplement. She also presents the programme Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and hosts the Vintage Podcast about books. Clark is Editor at Large at Union Books.