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Belinda McKeon

Belinda McKeon
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Belinda McKeon

Belinda McKeon, an award-winning playwright and journalist, was born in Ireland in 1979 and grew up on her parents' farm. She studied literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and worked as an arts writer for The Irish Times. McKeon has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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May 17, 2011
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Irish Times, May 11, 2012
...readings were lovely social events that were always packed out: a win-win for visiting authors and the bookshops. Belinda McKeon, writer of the award-winning Solace, will be at the Rathgar Bookshop, in Dublin 6, on May 23rd at 7.30pm to read from and...
Irish Times, April 20, 2012
...those taking part in the discussions, readings and cafés littéraires will be Seamus Heaney, Jennifer Johnston, Claire Keegan, Belinda McKeon, René de Ceccatty, Colette Fellous, Cécile Guilbert and Mathieu London. All events will be simultaneously...
Irish Independent, April 15, 2012
...Cold Eye of Heaven, whose daring narrative chronicles a city man's life from grave to cradle; and Belinda McKeon's Solace, an affecting first novel that's as much at home in the bars of the capital as in the byways of Longford. Now we have to select...
Irish Times, April 13, 2012
...writers Chantal Thomas, Colette Fellous and Mathieu Lindon; Irish writers Kevin Barry, John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Siobhan Mannion, Belinda McKeon and Claire Keegan; gallerist Sebastian Guinness; Simon Taylor, CEO of the National Concert Hall, and Mary...
Irish Times, April 13, 2012
...Christine Dwyer Hickey; The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright; The Dead Eight by Carlo G?bler; and Solace by Belinda McKeon. Boyd on Bond William Boyd, author of Restless and Any Human Heart, is to write the next James Bond novel. Finding the pitch-perfect...
Booktrade - Book2Book, April 13, 2012
...Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz, Carlo Gbler, The Dead Eight and Belinda McKeon, Solace. Irish PN...
Irish Times, March 31, 2012
...Carey plays with the (whisper it) historical novel to create 'a science fiction of the past', he tells BELINDA McKEON PETER CAREY IS COUNTING on his fingers. He taps each digit on the edge of a restaurant table in Tribeca, a Japanese place, an old New...
Irish Farmers Journal Interactive, February 27, 2012
...Farming with fiction With her award-winning debut novel Solace, Belinda McKeon has restored the rural novel to its rightful place on bookshelves from Ballinalee to Brooklyn. The Longford writer tells her tale to Maria Moynihan. She might be credited with...
Irish Times, February 25, 2012
...BELINDA McKEON : The Orphan Master's Son By Adam Johnson Doubleday, 344pp. ?18.99 IN THIS, HIS SECOND NOVEL, the US writer Adam Johnson enacts a feat of sorcery that is...
Guardian.co.uk, February 24, 2012
...before it has even begun. Sarah Thornhill, a character of great spirit and determination, surely deserves more. • Belinda McKeon's novel Solace is published by Picador. Fiction Belinda McKeon guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or...
Time Out New York, February 22, 2012
...Center for Fiction, Tomorrow 7pm. 17 E 47th St (between Fifth and Madison Aves) Subway: 42nd St S, 4, 5, 6, 7 to 42nd St–Grand CentralGet directions Two Irish authors read from and talk about their work tonight. Tóibín, the author of a half dozen...
Time Out New York, February 21, 2012
...on at this venue Hilma Wolitzer and Michael Cunningham in conversation | Today | Tomorrow Colm Tóibín and Belinda McKeon in conversation | Thu 23 Nearby Restaurants A Harry Cipriani Sherry Netherland, 781 Fifth Ave between 59th and 60th Sts B...
Irish Independent, February 6, 2012
...Choir 7. Alan Buribayev 8. Radiohead 9. Sligo 10. Imelda May Aiden Gillen, Lenny Henry, Aisling O'Sullivan, Belinda McKeon, Michael Longley, Martin Scorsese, Regina Nathan, Noomi Rapace 1. The Help 2. Gary Oldman 3. Brian Selznick 4. Harry Potter 5....
Irish Times, February 4, 2012
...five-minute film, he had the ability to conjure up an entire inner, subjective world, a world the writer Belinda McKeon described as "deeply unsettling yet never entirely unfamiliar". He was born in Bangor, Co Down, one of four children. The family moved...