![]() ![]() Keegan also has a great reputation as a teacher. Her latest collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published by Faber & Faber in 2007 and will be published by Grove/Atlantic in the U.S. Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, won critical acclaim, and was translated into Chinese, Italian, and German. ![]() She was twice awarded the Francis MacManus Award and was also a Wingate Scholar. Keegan’s stories have won numerous awards: the William Trevor Prize (judged by William Trevor), the Kilkenny Prize, the Olive Cook Award, the Tom-Gallon Award, the Martin Healy Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. in the teaching and practice of creative writing at the University of Wales at Cardiff, and an M.Phil. The youngest of a large Catholic family, she left home at the age of seventeen to study English literature and political science at Loyola University, New Orleans. ![]() Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in County Wicklow, on the southeast coast of Ireland. ![]()
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