Anne Enright
| Anne Enright | |
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Anne Enright at Literaturhaus Köln (Cologne, Germany), 18 November 2008
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| Born |
11 October 1962 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Dublin University of East Anglia |
| Period | 1991 – present |
| Genre | Essay, Novel, Short Story |
| Subject | Family relationships, love and sex, Irish history, the zeitgeist |
| Notable works |
The Portable Virgin The Wig My Father Wore What Are You Like? The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch The Gathering The Forgotten Waltz |
| Notable awards |
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 1991 Encore Award 2001 Man Booker Prize 2007 Irish Novel of the Year 2008 |
| Spouse | Martin Murphy |
| Children | One son, one daughter |
Anne Teresa Enright FRSL (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year.
Before winning the Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed and widely praised. Her writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex, Ireland's difficult past and its modern zeitgeist.
Enright won an international scholarship to Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied for an International Baccalaureate for two years. She received an English and philosophy degree from Trinity College, Dublin. She began writing in earnest when her family gave her an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday. She won a Chevening Scholarship to the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course, where she studied under Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury and earned an M.A..
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