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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien's -- Colm Toibin, author of BROOKLYN One of our greatest living novelists * The Times * Anne Enright, the unofficial rock star of literary fiction, cements her stardom with Actress * Irish Times * Anne Enright's gorgeous book Actress raised an enviable bar: uniquely, in modern fiction * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* * [The Green Road] confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation... A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work * Sunday Times *
