Also I like how the people in New Ross speak, I like the accent, the language, it's quite witty and terse, everything about it felt right for the story.'Īlthough no-one can predict exactly where we'll be in terms of restrictions come October, Claire said she would like to have an official launch of Small Things Like These in Wexford when it's released here.In Claire Keegan’s novella of Ireland in the 1980s, a good man faces a testing decision. 'In addition, I always liked the Barrow, we used to play beside it as children it's a mystical, magical river, it just felt right, the whole thing cohered for me. 'And then when I went to the library there to do some research I came out and I immediately smelled coal smoke in the air, I knew then that this was the right place for the book. 'I always associate New Ross as being a town which hasn't changed much, even during the boom.
'I knew there was a laundry there, but there were other reasons I chose to set it in New Ross,' she says.
Now taking a brief break from writing, Claire explains why she chose to set her work in New Ross. Thanking her translator Jacqueline Odin for her tireless work, Claire revealed that she has also been nominated for the 'Roman Etranger', a prize for the finest novel translated into French this past year.Īdding to the anticipation ahead of its Irish publication, The Irish Times named Claire's novel one of its books to look out for in 2021. Such has been its success that Small Things Like These, or Ce genre de petites choses to give it its French title, has won the Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award 2021, for Irish authors who publish their work in French. We published it in France and it sold 20,000 copies in the first two months even though book shops are closed, it's been a great success there.'
'I made the unusual decision to ask my French publisher Sabine Wespieser, if she would like to publish it first. 'I started writing it last October and actually finished it in October, once I start writing something I can't leave it alone, it's like having a baby in the house,' says Claire who grew up in Park Bridge on the Wexford Wicklow border. Claire Keegan's book, Small Things Like TheseĪlthough the book won't be released in Ireland until this coming October, Small Things Like These has already been launched in France, and to great acclaim.
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