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26/01/2006
Irish author Patrick O'Keeffe wins US fiction prize
Limerick-born author Patrick O'Keeffe has taken the US Story Prize for his
debut publication, a collection of four novellas, called The Hill Road.
O'Keeffe was awarded the first prize of $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl.
Born and brought up in Co Limerick, O'Keeffe moved to the States as an
illegal immigrant in 1986, subsequently winning his green card in a lottery
in 1989.
Published by Penguin's Viking imprint, The Hill Road is set in the rural
Irish farming village of Kilroan, and is about the hidden lives and passions
of its inhabitants.
The interconnected stories range in time from World War I to the 1980s.
With its attention to detail and its lyrical eloquence, this debut
collection has been compared to the work of Alice Munro and William Trevor.
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