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Keith Ridgway

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Keith Ridgway
Born
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationNovelist
Notable workThe Long Falling (1987), Hawthorn & Child (2012), A Shock (2021)

Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, the O. Henry Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Life

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Ridgway was born in 1965 in Dublin.[1] He has lived in London and Dublin[2] and currently lives in south London.[3][4][5][6] He has described himself as a queer, Irish, male writer[2] and has said he is "a Dubliner for life".[2]

Career

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Ridgway's novella, Horses, was included in volume 13 of the Faber First Fictions series in 1997.[1][7]

In 1998, Ridgway's debut novel, The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London.[1][8] Set in rural Ireland and Dublin, it tells of a woman in an abusive relationship and of her gay son who moves to Dublin.[9] The French translation, Mauvaise Pente, was published in 2001.[10] It won the Prix Femina Étranger[11][12][13] and the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger.[14] It was adapted into a film, Où va la nuit, by French director Martin Provost in 2011.[15]

A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, was published by Faber & Faber in 2001. It was translated into French, German, and Dutch[16] and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.[17][18][19]

Ridgway's second novel, The Parts, was published by Faber & Faber in 2003.[20][21] Set in a contemporary, cosmopolitan Dublin,[21] particularly the "underbelly" of the city,[22] it tells the interconnecting stories of six main characters.[20]

His next novel, Animals, a story of mental breakdown set in London,[23][24] was published by 4th Estate, London, in 2006.

Ridgway's short story, 'Goo Book', was published in the April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker magazine.[25][26] In the same year, his short story, 'Rothko Eggs', was published in Zoetrope: All Story.[27] It won the O. Henry Award in 2012 and was anthologized in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories that year.[28]

Both these stories later became part[2][29] of Ridgway's third novel, Hawthorn & Child, published by Granta Books in 2012.[30][31][32] An "out of sync" detective story without a resolution, the novel features two London detectives and also tells the stories of several characters loosely associated with the case they are investigating.[30]

After an eight year gap, Ridgway's next novel, A Shock, was published by Picador in June 2021.[33][34] Set in a hot summer in south London, once again, the novel features multiple interconnecting characters and stories.[35] It was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize[36][37] and it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[38][39]

Ridgway's novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in France,[40] Italy,[41] and Germany.[42]

Awards

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Bibliography

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  • Horses in First Fictions: Introduction 13, Faber & Faber, 1997. ISBN 978-0571190096. Republished as a standalone volume, Horses, Faber & Faber, 2003. ISBN 978-0571216451
  • The Long Falling, Faber & Faber, 1998. ISBN 978-0571216451
  • Standard Time, Faber & Faber, 2001. ISBN 978-0571205882
  • The Parts, Faber & Faber, 2003. ISBN 978-0571215713
  • Animals, 4th Estate, 2006. ISBN 978-0007213337
  • Hawthorn & Child, Granta, 2012. ISBN 978-1847085269
  • A Shock, Picador, 2021. ISBN 978-1529064797

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Keith Ridgway". Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d "'I write because I don't quite know how to live'". The Irish Times. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Keith Ridgway". Faber Academy. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Keith Ridgway by Tobias Carroll". BOMB Magazine. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  5. ^ "In the Gaps: An Interview with Keith Ridgway". The Paris Review. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Keith Ridgway's Shelf Life". Lunate. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Keith Ridgway | Our Authors | Granta Books". Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  8. ^ "The Long Falling Keith Ridgway". Literature Ireland. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Keith Ridgway: The Long Falling". The Modern Novel. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  10. ^ Ridgway, Keith (2001). Mauvaise Pente. Editions Phébus. ISBN 9782859407544.
  11. ^ a b "Le prix Fémina 2001 pour "Rosie Carpe" de Marie Ndiaye". Le Monde (in French). 29 October 2001. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Eire de misère". L'Express (in French). 15 November 2001. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Palmarès du prix Femina étranger". La Lettre du Libraire (in French). Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  14. ^ a b "Palmarès du prix du premier roman étranger". La Lettre du Libraire (in French). Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Où va la nuit". IMDb.
  16. ^ "Standard Time Keith Ridgway". Literature Ireland. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  17. ^ "Keith Ridgway". Literature Ireland. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  18. ^ "Ridgeway wins literature prize". The Irish Times. 12 June 2001. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  19. ^ a b "Former Rooney Prize Winners". Rooney Prize. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  20. ^ a b "The Dubliners". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  21. ^ a b "The Parts by Keith Ridgway". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  22. ^ "Keith Ridgway: The Parts". The Modern Novel. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  23. ^ "The dead mouse dilemma". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  24. ^ "All the scuttling things". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  25. ^ Ridgway, Keith (4 April 2011). "Goo Book". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  26. ^ Keith Ridgway, Fiction, “Goo Book,” The New Yorker, April 11, 2011, p. 62
  27. ^ Ridgway, Keith (Spring 2011). "Rothko Eggs". Zoetrope: All-Story. 15 (1).
  28. ^ a b "The O. Henry Prize Collection".
  29. ^ McCourt, John (Autumn 2014). ""All Stories Overlap": Reading Keith Ridgway's Short Fiction". Journal of the Short Story in English. 63.
  30. ^ a b Fox, Killian (29 July 2012). "Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  31. ^ "Like a Failed Cake". London Review of Books. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  32. ^ "Review – Hawthorn and Child, by Keith Ridgeway". The Spectator. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  33. ^ "Narrative momentum: Literary connection versus neoliberal apathy in A Shock by Keith Ridgeway". The TLS. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  34. ^ "A Shock by Keith Ridgway review – the real weirdness of London life". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  35. ^ "A Shock: Keith Ridgway". The Spectator. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  36. ^ "2021 Prize". Goldsmiths University of London. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  37. ^ "Keith Ridgway and Claire-Louise Bennett on Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist". The Irish Times. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  38. ^ a b "The James Tait Black Prizes". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  39. ^ "Ridgway and Chaudhuri win £10k James Tait Black prizes". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  40. ^ "10/18, tous les livres de la maison d'édition | Lisez". www.10-18.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  41. ^ "Hawthorn e Child | Castelvecchi Editore". Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  42. ^ "Keith Ridgway - Verlag Klaus Wagenbach".
  43. ^ "The Rooney Prize for Literature - Writers - Oscar Wilde Centre : Trinity College Dublin". Archived from the original on 17 November 2009.
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