Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author of The Long Falling, Standard Time, Horses, The Parts, Animals, and Hawthorn & Child.
His short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Stinging Fly, and others. He was awarded the Prix Femina (France) and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
It was the trickle of royalties from an inexplicably popular Japanese translation of my first novel which had provided me with my living for the previous few years.