We are proud and delighted to announce that Claire Keegan will appear at the 2022 festival. Claire's novel, Small Things Like These has recently been named on the long list for this year’s Booker Prize. At 116 pages, it is the shortest book recognised in the prize’s history. It has already won the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs en Irlande, The Kerry Prize for best Irish novel and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Claire was raised on a farm in Wicklow. Her works of fiction are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. 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 — then the world’s richest prize for a story — and was recently named by The Times UK as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st Century. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories.
Her appearance is set to be a literary highlight for this year's festival.