Life
1965- ; b. Dublin; issued novels Horses (1997); The Long Falling
(1998); Standard Time (2001), novella; The Parts (2003);
winner of Rooney Prize, 2001; also won the Suspended Sentence residency
in Sydney and Beijing, 2002; issued The Parts (2003), a mystery
revolving around drug-culture in Dublin; lives in London.
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Works
Standard Time (London: Faber & Faber 2001); Horses (London:
Faber & Faber, 1997); The Long Falling (London: Faber & Faber;
NY: Houghton Mifflin 1998); The Parts (London: Faber & Faber 2003).
Contrib. story to Caroline Walsh, ed., Arrows in Flight (Dublin: TownHouse
2003).
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Criticism
Michael Kerrigan, reviewing The Parts, in Times Literary
Supplement (7 Feb. 2002), ,p.21.
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Notes
Roddy Doyle remarks that Irish writers have been slow to deal with the changes of the past decade, although he believes that Keith Ridgeway The Parts is ‘quite brilliant' in its depiction of contemporary Dublin.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)