Claire Keegan’s works are internationally acclaimed and translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. 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 short story. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel the year and is now part of the Irish school syllabus. So Late in the Day, first published in the New Yorker, was shortlisted for Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, Author of the Year in 2023, and presented with the Markievicz Award by the Arts Council. She was presented with the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters and the Siegfried Lenz Award in 2024.

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