

Ridgway expertly chronicles intimate bonds and intimate losses among his characters and embodies the stories in intricate structures. I could talk about the way he’s able to evoke communities through his fiction, or the dreamlike logic that suffuses some of his work-particularly his 2012 novel Hawthorn & Child and his debut novella Horses.

Henry Award in 2012 and was anthologized in the PEN/O. Ridgway's short story "Rothko Eggs" won the O. That same year The Long Falling received the Prix Femina Étranger (translated as "Mauvaise Pente"). Keith Ridgway was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2001. Ridgway's novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in France, Italy, and Germany. His first novel in eight years, A Shock, was published by Picador in June 2021. Hawthorn & Child, was published by New Directions on 2013. A short story, "Goo Book," was published in the April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 2006 Animals was published by 4th Estate, London. A collection of short fiction, Standard Time, appeared in 2000, followed by Ridgway's third novel, The Parts, in 2003.

It was adapted into a film by French director Martin Provost in 2011: Où va la nuit. In 1998 The Long Falling was published by Faber & Faber, London.

Horses, Ridgway's first published work of fiction, appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. An author, he has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction." Writings Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist.
