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Anne Enright

Ireland (1962 - )

About Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and two previous novels, The Wig My Father Wore and What Are You Like? which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and won the Encore Award.

Novels

The Wig My Father Wore (1995)
What Are You Like? (2000)
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
The Gathering (2007)

Collections

The Portable Virgin (1991)
Taking Pictures (2008)
Yesterday's Weather (2008)

Series contributed to

Finbar's Hotel (with Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Tóibín)
Finbar's Hotel (1999)

Non fiction

Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood (2004)

Awards

	Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2000) : What Are You Like?
	The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (2007) : The Gathering
	Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2008) : The Gathering

Anne Enright recommends

Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times (2008)
Glenn Patterson
"Clear-eyed and compassionate."

Not Untrue and Not Unkind (2009)
Ed O'Loughlin
"Fantastic writing... the most exciting first novel I have read in many years."

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