Anne Enright

Anne Enright is an Irish novelist and short story writer, one of the preeminent Irish fiction writers of her generation. Born in Dublin, she was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the University of East Anglia. She has taught at University College Dublin, where she is Maynooth University's first Laureate for Irish Fiction. The Forgotten Waltz (2011) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2012. The novel follows a married Irish woman's affair during the Celtic Tiger years in Ireland, exploring desire, memory, and self-deception with Enright's characteristic irony and precision. Her novel The Gathering (2007) won the Man Booker Prize. Her other novels include What Are You Like? (2000), The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002), The Green Road (2015), which was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, Actress (2020), and The Wren, the Wren (2023). Enright has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Andrew Gale Prize, and many other awards. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded honorary degrees from multiple universities. She lives in Dublin with her family.