Keith Ridgway author biography, plus links to books by Keith Ridgway.

Keith Ridgway

Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His previous novels include A Shock (winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), Hawthorn & Child, and Animals. He has also been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His books have been acclaimed "ingeniously slippery" (Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review),  "bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful" (Louie Conway, Vanity Fair), and "like Finnegans Wake, only readable" (John Self, London Times).

This biography was last updated on 07/21/2026.

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