Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta and in most notable anthologies of Irish fiction. Her first collection, The Portable Virgin won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1991. Novels include The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, winner of the Encore Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. A collection of essays about motherhood, Making Babies, became very popular. Enright's latest novel, The Gathering, won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Her latest books are a collection of short stories, Taking Pictures, and the novel The Forgotten Waltz, published in 2011. Anne Enright lives in Bray, Co. Wicklow.