Author
Anne Enright
Birth Date
October 11, 1962
(63 Years)
Associated Country
Ireland
Anne Enright is an Irish novelist and essayist known for her incisive, psychologically rich writing that often explores family, memory, and the complexities of human relationships. She was born in Dublin and studied at University College Dublin and the University of East Anglia before beginning her literary career.
Enright gained international recognition with novels such as The Gathering (2007), which won the Booker Prize, and The Green Road (2015). Her work frequently examines the tensions within Irish families, the legacy of the past, and the emotional intricacies of everyday life. She is also the author of essays and short stories that showcase her sharp observational style.
Her writing is celebrated for its emotional honesty, precision, and dark humor. Enright is regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary Irish literature.
Enright gained international recognition with novels such as The Gathering (2007), which won the Booker Prize, and The Green Road (2015). Her work frequently examines the tensions within Irish families, the legacy of the past, and the emotional intricacies of everyday life. She is also the author of essays and short stories that showcase her sharp observational style.
Her writing is celebrated for its emotional honesty, precision, and dark humor. Enright is regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary Irish literature.
Books
Attention 2026
For thirty years Anne Enright—one of our greatest living novelists (Times)—has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting...
The Wren, the Wren 2024
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her...
Actress 2021
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine’s...
The Green Road 2016
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's...
Making Babies 2013
Anne Enright was married for eighteen years before she and her husband started having children. Already a confident, successful novelist, Enright continued to work after each of her two children was...
The Forgotten Waltz 2012
In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Seán Vallely....
Yesterday's Weather 2009
Yesterday's Weather shows us a rapidly changing Ireland, a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer...
The Gathering 2007
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers *The Gathering*, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot...
Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep,...
What Are You Like? 2001
When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the...