Claire Keegan grew up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won multiple awards and have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her collection Antarctica won the Rooney Award for Irish Literature and was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times . The collection Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Award, for the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. The Foster story won the Davy Byrnes, then the world's richest prize for a story, and was named by The Times UK as one of the 50 best stories to be published in the 21st century. Claire Keegan's stories have been published in the New Yorker , The Paris Review , Granta , and Best American Stories . Little Things Like These was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022. It won the Kerry Group Award for Irish Novel of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.