David Keenan

David Keenan (born April 1971) is a Scottish writer and author of four novels. His debut novel, This Is Memorial Device (Faber, 2017), won the Collyer Bristow Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. His second novel, For the Good Times (Faber, 2019), won the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize. Edna O'Brien described reading his third novel, Xstabeth (White Rabbit, 2020), as 'feel[ing] like being cut open to the accompanying sound of ecstatic music’. His fourth novel, Monument Maker, will be published by White Rabbit in 2021.

David Keenan

David Keenan (born April 1971) is a Scottish writer and author of four novels. His debut novel, This Is Memorial Device (Faber, 2017), won the Collyer Bristow Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. His second novel, For the Good Times (Faber, 2019), won the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize. Edna O'Brien described reading his third novel, Xstabeth (White Rabbit, 2020), as 'feel[ing] like being cut open to the accompanying sound of ecstatic music’. His fourth novel, Monument Maker, will be published by White Rabbit in 2021.