Keith Ridgway
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Keith Ridgway is a Dublin-born award-winning writer. He currently lives in Edinburgh
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Writings

Ridgway's first published fictional prose work was Horses, which appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. In 1998 The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London. A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, followed in 2000, also from Faber & Faber.

In 2003 The Parts was published by Faber & Faber.

In 2006, Animals was published by 4th Estate
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, London.

Goo Book was published in the April 11, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine. It is a short story about a pickpocket who serves as a chauffeur for a London crime boss and businessman.

Ridgway's work has been translated into several languages and has been published in France
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, Spain
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, Portugal
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, Italy
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, Germany
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, Belgium
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, The Netherlands and the United States
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Awards

The Long Falling, under its French title of Mauvaise Pente, was awarded both the Prix Femina
Prix Femina
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 Etranger and the Prix Premier Roman in Paris
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 in 2001. Ridgway was awarded The Rooney Prize For Irish Literature
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
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in 2001.

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