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Also known as Anne Teresa Enright

Irish writer (born 1962)

Person · Open Library

Born
1962-10-11
Works
34

Top works

  • Irland Erzählt
  • The Granta book of the Irish short story
  • Lost in transition
  • (She Owns)Every (Short Story)
  • Babies

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Ireland
Active from
1962-10-11
has german audiobooks

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Listeners
43
Total plays
400

Anne Enright (born 11 October 1962 in Dublin) is an Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels. Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Anne+Enright">Read more on Last.fm</a

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Quotes

  • I remember rocking the pram with one hand and typing with the other.
  • There was a great buzz and sometimes I felt like awarding myself purple hearts for the work I was doing.
  • It was lucky I was hanging around with theatre types who don't really have steady jobs.
  • There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

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Key facts

Born
Anne Teresa Enright , ( 1962-10-11 ) 11 October 1962 (age 63) , Dublin , Ireland
Occupation
Writer
Alma mater
Trinity College Dublin University of East Anglia
Period
Contemporary
Genre
Novel , short story
Subject
Family , Love , Motherhood
Years active
1991–present
Notable works
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (2004), The Gathering (2007)
Notable awards
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , 1991, Encore Award , 2001, Man Booker Prize , 2007, Irish Novel of the Year , 2008
Spouse
Martin Murphy

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Anne Enright
date of birth
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Anne Enright
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2012-01-01
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Anne Teresa Enright FRSL (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her essays on literary themes have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Her fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.

Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her fourth novel The Gathering. Her second novel, What Are You Like?, was shortlisted in the novel category of the 2000 Whitbread Awards. Her 2012 novel The Forgotten Waltz won the Andre Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Her novel The Green Road was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won The Irish Novel of the Year (2015). In 2025, Enright was named as a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize, awarded in recognition of her life's work.

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