ANNE ENRIGHT

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author, Inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Man Booker Prize Winner, Anne Enright studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and went on to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is a former RTÉ television producer and a full time writer since 1991.

Her short stories have appeared in several magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, and The Paris Review, and she won the 2004 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award for her story, ‘Honey’.

Her first collection, ‘The Portable Virgin’, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1991. A second collection, ‘Taking Pictures’ was published in 2008 and her collected short stories came out the same year under the title ‘Yesterday’s Weather’. She has also published a book of essays, ‘Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood’ (2004) about the experience of becoming a mother.

Her novels are ‘The Wig My Father Wore’ (1995), shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize; ‘What Are You Like?’, winner of the 2001 Encore Award and shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Novel Award; ‘The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch’ (2002); and ‘The Gathering’ (2007) about a large Irish family gathering for the funeral of a wayward brother. ‘The Gathering’ won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Irish Novel of the Year.

‘The Forgotten Waltz’ (2011) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her forthcoming novel, ‘The Green Road’, was published in May 2015 critically well received.

Anne was appointed the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council in 2015.