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Anne Teresa Enright FRSL is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year.

Before winning the Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed and widely praised. Her writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex, Ireland's difficult past and its modern zeitgeist.



✵ 11. October 1962
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The Gathering
The Gathering
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Famous Anne Enright Quotes

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”

Anne Enright The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”

Anne Enright The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“I am interested in silences”

Anne Enright

“It was lucky I was hanging around with theatre types who don't really have steady jobs.”

Anne Enright

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/18/bookerprize2007.thebookerprize

“There was a great buzz and sometimes I felt like awarding myself purple hearts for the work I was doing.”

Anne Enright

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/18/bookerprize2007.thebookerprize

“I remember rocking the pram with one hand and typing with the other.”

Anne Enright

On motherhood and its effect on her writing — The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/18/bookerprize2007.thebookerprize

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