Description
Book SynopsisAnne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as
Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction,
Making Babies, and seven novels, including
The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize,
The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and
The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.
Trade ReviewWitty and acerbic...unusual and elegant. She is a writer to watch * Today *
Introduces a new voice in Irish fiction...a quirky, subversive, original wit and an imaginative linguistic fluency which must be interpreted as the consolidation of a new literary maturity -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
In sentence after sentence as cool and clear-headed as the moment a migraine lifts, these pained, precise, disquieting stories restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead. The Portable Virgin is a remarkable debut -- Aidan Matthews
A great new Irish talent which we're bound to enjoy again. I can't wait * Irish Indepedent *
