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 ReviewEnright deals beautifully with the modern world ... blood, guts, and heart-stopping beauty * Independent *
At the top of her form, she is remarkable -- Jane Shilling * The Times *
Shockingly beautiful and painfully funny * Observer *
The quality of the writing should help to explain Enright's having won the 2007 Man Booker Prize ... single lines and paragraphs are so well crafted, with such salty, pleasantly brutal sensibility, that these stories function like beguiling advertisements for Enright's novels. After sampling
Taking Pictures, those who, like me, have not yet read
The Gathering will likely move her Man Booker winner nearer to the top of the pile beside the bed -- Lionel Shriver * Daily Telegraph *
She's a sphinx, an alchemist, a literary witch who sticks a spell on you. Angela Carter and Ali Smith can do this too.... buy it, read it, it isn't realism, it's music * Scotsman *
