Jorge Fondebrider is an Argentinian poet, critic and translator. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for best Irish Novel of the year and the Ambassadors Prize for best Irish novel translated into French. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize.

It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award - then the world’s richest prize for a story - was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century.

Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. a sublime Chekhovian shock.' Andrew O'Hagan 'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín 'A true gift of a book. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020) 'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss 'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinéad Gleeson ** A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK** **CHOSEN AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME** It is 1985, in an Irish town. Read more word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel (Winner of the Booker Prize 20) 'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS 'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. ** A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** Chosen as a Spectator, Irish Times and Irish Independent Book of the Year ** THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR.

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