About Anne Enright
Anne started writing in earnest when she got an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday. Anne was a television director and producer for RTE in Dublin for six years, and produced the RTE programme “Nighthawks” for four years. Then she worked in children’s programming for two years and would write on the weekend. She started writing full time in the year 1993. Her full time writing career came about when she left television because of a breakdown. She is married to Martin Murphy, who was the director of the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire. They have a son and daughter together. “The Portable Virgin”, her first collection of short stories, won the Rooney Prize. “The Forgotten Waltz” won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and “The Gathering” won the Man Booker Prize. She
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
8 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Wig My Father Wore(1995)
- What are You Like?(2000)
- The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch(2002)
- The Gathering(2007)
- The Forgotten Waltz(2011)
- The Green Road(2015)
- Actress(2020)
- The Wren, the Wren(2023)
Publication Order of Collections
4 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Portable Virgin(1992)
- Taking Pictures(2008)
- Yesterday's Weather(2008)
- Attention(2025)
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
3 books in seriesPublication Order
- Making Babies(2004)
- Babies(2017)
- No Authority(2020)
Publication Order of Anthologies
5 books in seriesPublication Order
- Finbar's Hotel(1997)
- Virgins and Hyacinths: The Attic Press Book of Fiction(1997)
- Uea Creative Writing Anthology 2008.(2008)
- The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story(2011)
- The Long Gaze Back(2015)
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