 
Anne Enright is an Irish author
who won the Booker prize for The Gathering in 2007. She was born on
October 11, 1962 and she has published essays, short stories, a non
fiction book and four novels. Before she won the Booker prize she had
little recognition in Ireland as well as in the United Kingdom, but
after winning the prize her books were reviewed and well praised.
In her writing she deals with themes such as family relationships,
love and sex, difficult past life of Ireland and modern zeitgeist. After
having won many scholarships to several institutes such as, Lester
Pearson United World College in the Pacific in Victoria, British
Colombia, she received an English and Philosophy degree from Trinity
College, Dublin and later earned an M.A.
She was a television producer and a director for RTE in Dublin for
six years. Enright’s first novel, The Wig My Father Wore was published
in 1995 which explores themes as love, motherhood, Roman Catholicism and
sex. The second novel was, What Are You Like? (2000) which was
shortlisted for the Whitbread Award.
Her writings have also appeared in several magazines such as, the New
Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta and London Review of Books, and Irish
Times. Moreover, she was a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, and at
present she reviews for The Guardian and RTE. She won the Davy Byrne’s
Irish Writing Award for 2004.
She also won the Royal Society of Authors Encore Prize. Further, her
novel The Gathering won the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. Her latest
work of art isTaking Pictures in 2008. |
