Film & TV
Known for
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self2025
- Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women — Herself - Contributor2018
- Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street — Self - Writer2017
- RedneX The Movie — Melissa1998
- The Courier — Pregnant Girl1988
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anne
- Family name
- Enright
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Pearson College UWC
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Gathering
- Image
- Enright Anne koeln literaturhaus 181108.jpg
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- Anne Enright
- date of birth
- 1962-10-11
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- ethnic group
- Irish people
- name in native language
- Anne Enright
- floruit
- 2012-01-01
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- writing language
- English language
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anne Enright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.