Saturday 8th August 2:00 pm 

Claire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and was recently presented with the Siegfried Lenz Award in Hamburg for being “one of the great European storytellers.” She was raised on a small farm in Wicklow.