Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962.
She has published two
collections of stories, The Portable Virgin (London, Secker and Warburg
1991), which won the Rooney Prize that year; and Taking Pictures (London, Jonathan Cape, 2008).
Her novels are The Wig
My Father Wore, (Jonathan Cape 1995), which was shortlisted for
the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize; What Are You
Like? (Jonathan Cape 2000), which won the Royal Society of Authors
Encore Prize; The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (Jonathan Cape
2002); and The Gathering (Jonathan Cape, 2007), which won The Man Booker Prize 2007.
Uncollected short stories have appeared in The New Yorker,
The Paris Review and Granta. She was the inaugural winner of
The Davy Byrne Award for her short story Honey.
Her other work includes a book of essays, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (London, Jonathan Cape, 2004).
She lives in Bray, Co Wicklow.
