Keith Ridgway is the author of  The Long Falling, which won both the 2001 Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger. His collection of stories  Standard Time won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second novel,  The Parts, alongside his novella,  Horses, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2003. His novel,  A Shock (2021), was shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize and was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.  Dooneen is his first novel to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. He lives in London.