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Anne Enright

Ireland (b.1962)

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.

Awards: Writers' Prize (2024), Booker (2007), RSL (2001) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery

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Novels

   The Wig My Father Wore (1995)
   What Are You Like? (2000)
   The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
   The Gathering (2007)
   The Forgotten Waltz (2011)
   The Green Road (2015)
   Actress (2020)
   The Wren, the Wren (2023)

Collections

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

Anthologies edited

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story (2010)

Series contributed to

Finbar's Hotel
Finbar's Hotel (1997) (with others)

Vintage Minis
Babies (2017)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Anne Enright

Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Love (2012)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Midsummer Nights (2009)
Tales from the Opera
edited by
Jeanette Winterson

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Awards

	2024 The Writers' Prize for Fiction : The Wren, the Wren
	2016 Indie Book Award for Fiction : The Green Road
	2007 Booker Prize : The Gathering
	2001 Encore Award : What Are You Like?

Award nominations

	2024 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Wren, the Wren
	2017 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Green Road
	2016 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Green Road
	2016 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee) : The Green Road
	2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Green Road
	2015 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Green Road
	2015 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Green Road
	2012 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Forgotten Waltz
	2000 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : What Are You Like?

Anne Enright recommends

Open, Heaven (2025)
Seán Hewitt
"Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace; in Open, Heaven, beauty, longing and the natural world form a single chord that strikes the heart of the reader with love's impossibility. The heightened, poetic state of adolescence is perfectly captured here."

The City Changes Its Face (2025)
Eimear McBride
"Eimear McBride is the natural heir to Joyce and Beckett: she is one of the finest writers at work today."

The Echoes (2024)
Evie Wyld
"It takes brilliance and verve to leap into the darkness as Evie Wyld does here. What a discovery - this is the first book of her books I have read; it will certainly not be the last."

Whale Fall (2024)
Elizabeth O'Connor
"The quiet cadences of Whale Fall contain a deep melody of loss held and let go. It is a gentle, tough story about profound change."

Wild Houses (2024)
Colin Barrett
"Colin Barrett quietly, insistently, writes so deeply into his characters you could reach out and touch them. Wild Houses is a gift of true storytelling and Barrett's talent burns up the page."

This Plague of Souls (2023)
Mike McCormack
"This is the reason Mike McCormack is one of Ireland's best-loved novelists; he is the most modestly brilliant writer we have. His delicate abstractions are woven from the ordinary and domestic - both metaphysical and moving, McCormack's work asks the big questions about our small lives."

The Red Bird Sings (2023)
Aoife Fitzpatrick
"Written with a compelling, lyrical intensity, The Red Bird Sings is a historical drama whose characters are full of a a suppressed fury, and haunted by a need for justice. A deeply felt and accomplished debut."

Dinner Party (2021)
Sarah Gilmartin
"Sarah Gilmartin is a natural writer: she gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is easy, fluent and charged with insight."

Klara and the Sun (2021)
Kazuo Ishiguro
"There is something so steady and beautiful about the way Klara is always approaching connection, like a Zeno’s arrow of the heart. People will absolutely love this book, in part because it enacts the way we learn how to love. Klara and the Sun is wise like a child who decides, just for a little while, to love their doll. ‘What can children know about genuine love?’ Klara asks. The answer, of course, is everything."

Alligator and Other Stories (2020)
Dima Alzayat
"Originality meets craft."

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (2020)
Deepa Anappara
"Storytelling at its best—not just sympathetic, vivid, and beautifully detailed, but completely assured and deft . . . We care about these characters from the first page and our concern for them is richly repaid."

The River Capture (2019)
Mary Costello
"Costello's writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand."

Certain American States (2018)
Catherine Lacey
"[Lacey] is playful and smart, one of a generation of American women who seem entirely unafraid."

Last Stories (2018)
William Trevor
"His stories are formally beautiful and, at the same time, interested in the smallness of human lives. He was, as a writer, watchful, unsentimental, alert to frailty and malice. A master craftsman."

Something for Everyone (2018)
Lisa Moore
"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid, and beautiful. She has a great gift."

Midwinter Break (2017)
Bernard MacLaverty
"MacLaverty is a sweetly astute writer, a master of fine detail, compassing the quotidian, the intimate and the sacred. Midwinter Break shows us how ordinary and immense love can be."

Spoils (2017)
Brian Van Reet
"Clear, authentic, and beautifully written, Spoils is a book about war for people who don't like books about war."

Solace (2011)
Belinda McKeon
"A story of clear-eyed compassion and quiet intelligence."

Hand in the Fire (2010)
Hugo Hamilton
"A great international writer. His is the voice of the migrant, the stranger and the traveller in us all."

Antigona and Me (2009)
Kate Clanchy
"Not just a heart-stopping story, but one of that is essential of our times."

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

Tender (2009)
Mark Illis
"Mark Illis is a great stylist: eloquent, graceful, quiet. His work has wonderful subtlety and surprising strength."

Once Upon a Hill (2008)
Glenn Patterson
"Clear-eyed and compassionate."

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