Keiran Goddard
British novelist, poet and critic
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Keiran Goddard is a novelist, poet and critic from Shard End, Birmingham. He is the author of the novels Hourglass, longlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize, and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, longlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published the poetry collections For the Chorus and Votive.[2][3][4][5]
- Hourglass
- I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
- For the Chorus
- Votive
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| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford[1] |
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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning was adapted for film by director Clio Barnard from a screenplay by Enda Walsh.[6] Goddard also writes as a critic for The Guardian and The Observer.[7]
Novels
His debut novel, Hourglass, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize.[8] The novel was praised by Nina Renata Aron in The Los Angeles Times, and received a more critical review from Alyssa Songsiridej in The Toronto Star.[9][10]
Goddard's second novel is I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning[11][12] In a review for The Guardian, Barney Norris described it as "a multivocal narrative focusing on a working-class community in Birmingham."[13] Kirkus Reviews praised the book's "extraordinary writing", but noted "[the five narrators] seem uncommonly reflective and articulate, even when drunk or stoned or suicidal."[14] The novel was published internationally and nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize.[15]
It is also being adapted for film[16] by Enda Walsh and Clio Barnard for BBC Film. It will star Daryl McCormack, Joe Cole, Lola Petticrew, Anthony Boyle, Jay Lycurgo, Millie Brady and Lucie Shorthouse.[17]
Other writing
Goddard writes regularly for The Guardian and The Observer.[18]
