Keith Ridgway

Keith Ridgway was born in Dublin. His novella, Horses, appeared in the Faber First Fictions series in 1997 and was followed in 1998 by his critically acclaimed first novel, The Long Falling. The latter won both the prestigious 2001 Prix Femina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger in France. That same year, Ridgway was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his collection of short stories, Standard Time (2001), which was published in German by Klaus Wagenbach Verlag. His second novel, The Parts (2003) is a multi-narrator homage to Dublin while Animals (2006) charts the mental disintegration of a paranoid protagonist. Hawthorn and Child (2012) was described by the Guardian as ‘a bizarre, engaging take on the detective novel [which] elevates the mystery of human connections above the solving of crime’. After more than a decade living in London, Keith Ridgway returned to Dublin in 2012. www.keithridgway.com