Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist.^[1] An author,^[2][3][4] he has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction".^[5]

Writings

Horses, Ridgway's first published work of fiction, appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997.^[6] In 1998 The Long Falling was published by Faber & Faber, London. It was adapted into a film by French director Martin Provost in 2011: Où va la nuit.^[7] A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, appeared in 2000, followed by Ridgway's third novel, The Parts, in 2003. Both were published by Faber & Faber. In 2006 Animals was published by 4th Estate, London. A short story, "Goo Book," was published in the April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker magazine.^[8] Hawthorn & Child, was published by New Directions in 2013.^[9] His first novel in eight years, A Shock, was published by Picador in June 2021. Ridgway's novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in France,^[10] Italy,^[11] and Germany.^[12]

Awards

Keith Ridgway was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2001.^[2] That same year The Long Falling received the Prix Femina Étranger (translated as "Mauvaise Pente").^[13] Ridgway's short story "Rothko Eggs" won the O. Henry Award in 2012 and was anthologized in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories that year.^[4] A Shock was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Award.