Keith Ridgway
@rid9way.bsky.social
fiction writer / london / dublin
new novel - Dooneen / June 2026 from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
agented by @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social at RCW
new novel - Dooneen / June 2026 from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
agented by @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social at RCW
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Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
Contemporary Danish fiction is very weird and very wonderful. Solvej Balle, Harald Voetmann, Olga Ravn. My head is spinning.
This is fantastic. "Someone must take the punishment, when punishment is handed down."
Beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.
This is fantastic. "Someone must take the punishment, when punishment is handed down."
Beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Contemporary Danish fiction is very weird and very wonderful. Solvej Balle, Harald Voetmann, Olga Ravn. My head is spinning.
This is fantastic. "Someone must take the punishment, when punishment is handed down."
Beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.
This is fantastic. "Someone must take the punishment, when punishment is handed down."
Beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
This a wonderful conversation.
New episode of the PalFest podcast is now live:
Episode 4 - Tareq Baconi in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION
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Episode 4 - Tareq Baconi in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION
Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Our website: www.palfest.org/podcast
Palfest Podcast — The Palestine Festival of Literature
The PalFest Podcast highlights new books from and about Palestine, bringing writers together in conversation across borders to discuss new ideas and dig into vital histories.
Each episode will featur...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This a wonderful conversation.
November 18th. Have yourself a weird and upsetting Calculation Of Volume Day.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
November 18th. Have yourself a weird and upsetting Calculation Of Volume Day.
November 18th. Have yourself a weird and upsetting Calculation Of Volume Day.
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
November 18th. Have yourself a weird and upsetting Calculation Of Volume Day.
Utterly compelling, deeply alarming. Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's The Long Heat (following Overshoot from last year) sets out the extent to which we are fucked. The planet is overheating. Fossil-fuel capitalism is doing it, and it is not stopping. From @versobooks.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Utterly compelling, deeply alarming. Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's The Long Heat (following Overshoot from last year) sets out the extent to which we are fucked. The planet is overheating. Fossil-fuel capitalism is doing it, and it is not stopping. From @versobooks.bsky.social
"Others were dismayed by an apparent ignorance... about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. At a fractious meeting... the CEO of BBC News told colleagues: “We’ve got to remember that this all started on 7 October.""
Fascinating read from @trillingual.bsky.social at @equatormag.bsky.social
Fascinating read from @trillingual.bsky.social at @equatormag.bsky.social
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Others were dismayed by an apparent ignorance... about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. At a fractious meeting... the CEO of BBC News told colleagues: “We’ve got to remember that this all started on 7 October.""
Fascinating read from @trillingual.bsky.social at @equatormag.bsky.social
Fascinating read from @trillingual.bsky.social at @equatormag.bsky.social
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The fate of all things after all after all.
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The fate of all things after all after all.
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Completely 🦇🦇 that in two months this has gone from red pencil to actual book with French flaps! Happy / stupidly emotional launch day to the little book that for the longest time couldn't & then could.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Completely 🦇🦇 that in two months this has gone from red pencil to actual book with French flaps! Happy / stupidly emotional launch day to the little book that for the longest time couldn't & then could.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
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Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social
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Stoked to have a #ShortStory 🌀Night Of The Big Wind🌀 in #TheClimateIssue of @stingingfly.bsky.social Huge thanks to Editor Lisa McInerney. I'm also super grateful to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for a 2025 Literature Bursary Award. I'll be reading this story at #DoolinWritersWeekend in January.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Stoked to have a #ShortStory 🌀Night Of The Big Wind🌀 in #TheClimateIssue of @stingingfly.bsky.social Huge thanks to Editor Lisa McInerney. I'm also super grateful to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for a 2025 Literature Bursary Award. I'll be reading this story at #DoolinWritersWeekend in January.
Enjoyed this immensely. Such a sensual, subtle book. Beautifully puzzling at times, and the language always up to something. I am embarrassed to say that I fell slightly in love with Xavier. Awful man.
From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.
From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Enjoyed this immensely. Such a sensual, subtle book. Beautifully puzzling at times, and the language always up to something. I am embarrassed to say that I fell slightly in love with Xavier. Awful man.
From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.
From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.
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It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
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Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.
Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.
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Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.
July 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.
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Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.
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the time needed
Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir
Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
the time needed
Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir
Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir
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It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
June 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
Patrick Duffy is a new writer I got to work with on my @faberacademy.bsky.social Writing Fiction course a while ago. A really interesting writer. This is a great short piece of his currently available to read on oxonianreview.com. I think he also has something in the new @gutter.bsky.social
Arrangements
‘That she would play better than he ever played, and she would fill her home with warmth, and people would walk by, and hear, and everyone would know. And she would find a man who played as beautifull...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Patrick Duffy is a new writer I got to work with on my @faberacademy.bsky.social Writing Fiction course a while ago. A really interesting writer. This is a great short piece of his currently available to read on oxonianreview.com. I think he also has something in the new @gutter.bsky.social
Really like the Turkish cover of A Shock.
Out now (or soon) from Ithaki Yayınları
@ithakiyayinlari.bsky.social
Translated by Ata Türkoğlu
Out now (or soon) from Ithaki Yayınları
@ithakiyayinlari.bsky.social
Translated by Ata Türkoğlu
November 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Really like the Turkish cover of A Shock.
Out now (or soon) from Ithaki Yayınları
@ithakiyayinlari.bsky.social
Translated by Ata Türkoğlu
Out now (or soon) from Ithaki Yayınları
@ithakiyayinlari.bsky.social
Translated by Ata Türkoğlu