Antarctica: ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ THE TIMES

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En conclusión, Antártida reúne cuentos que mezclan una prosa poética y sobria, que describe escenarios de una cotidianeidad pacífica, con un ambiente de nostalgia, pero principalmente con una tensión que crece desde la profundidad a medida que avanzamos las páginas. Y al llegar el clímax la realidad se muestra con toda rudeza, intensa y sin filtros. El resultado casi siempre sorprende, y al mismo tiempo sentimos una suerte de liberación, la misma que estaba oprimiendo al personaje, aun cuando eso signifique presenciar una tragedia, tanto simbólica como auténtica.

Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review. [1] [2] Biography [ edit ] It’s enough to allow her to contemplate giving up the creative writing teaching she has done for years. She currently has a fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, as part of an exchange with Trinity, Dublin. “I really did spend a good deal of the last decade going deeply into how creative writing could be taught, and seeing what I could and couldn’t do there,” she says. “And I feel I’ve come out the other end of that now. I’ll probably just stay at my desk for the next decade.” To submit to an analysis, Claire Keegan's "Antarctica" was, for me, a frustratingly complex task. Keegan's tales are at once simple and clear while being extremely complex in their implicit subliminal messages. And when we have a compact and coherent collection without any weakness, in my opinion, the task of producing a critique or review is all the more thorny and difficult to accomplish.

Claire Keegan: 'Short stories are limited. I'm cornered into writing what I can' Interview". The Guardian. 4 September 2010. Aosdána elects 10 new members and announces Camille Souter as Saoi". The Arts Council. 9 May 2008 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. Cigarette ash fell on the duvet, but they were too drunk to care. Drunk and careless and occupying the same bed on the same night. It was all so simple, really. Loud Christmas music started up in the apartment downstairs. A Gregorian chant, monks singing.

Discover the authors nominated for the Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award 2021". Ambassade de France en Irlande - French Embassy in Ireland. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian ‘I’m not somebody who finds it difficult to make work’ … Claire Keegan necessary to explore how he, the father, would carry this knowledge around with him on his rounds, through his days, through his life and how or if he could or would still regard himself as a good father. I’m not even sure if this man, Furlong, can regard himself as a good father after this novel ends - as he may have deprived his daughters of a decent education and may lose his business, may not be able to provide for his family. Something I liked in all the stories is how Keegan connects us with the environment. The natural world is always present, I think her descriptions of waves and oceans or cold mornings, or leaves on the floor really feed into the sensual element. You want to sneak off to lunch and get drunk?” He pushed her into the booth and kissed her, a long, wet kiss. “I woke this morning with your scent in the sheets,” he said. “It was beautiful.”a b c d Boland, Rosita (23 June 2009). "Writer Claire Keegan wins €25,000 Davy Byrnes award". The Irish Times. Keegan's first collection of short stories, Antarctica (1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the William Trevor Prize. [4] [5] Her second collection of short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's 'long, short story' [6] Foster won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award. [7] Foster appeared in the 15 February 2010 issue of New Yorker; it was later published by Faber and Faber in longer form. Foster is now included as a text for the Irish Leaving Certificate. [8] It was adapted for film by writer/director Colm Bairéad in 2021 and released as An Cailín Ciúin ( The Quiet Girl) in May 2022. I’ve always been interested in choosing well and putting what’s chosen to good use... I’m more interested in going in than going on.... Elegance, to me, is writing just enough... the hardest thing in the world is simplicity.

Keegan's powerful prose and economy of words create authentic, multidimensional characters. The reader identifies with them or recognizes them in someone in real life, and consequently cares about them in the space of a paragraph or two. Small Things Like These has been described as historical fiction, yet the author disagrees with it being a novel about the Magdalene laundries ( Guardian interview, October 21), saying, ‘I think it’s a story about a man who was loved in his youth and can’t resist offering the same type of love to somebody else’. Discuss how Claire Keegan has allowed historical fiction and a deeper character study to intersect.Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. In that case,” he said, “hell for me would be deserted; there’d be nobody there. Not even the devil. I’ve always taken heart in the fact that hell is populated; all my friends will be there.” He ground more pepper over his salad plate and tore the doughy heart out of the loaf.