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Anne Enright


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
October 11, 1962

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and five novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her novel The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

Jude Cook, author and publisher of Conduit Books
In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the languid Lord Henry announces: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

I’m not so

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Average rating: 3.35 · 74,819 ratings · 10,480 reviews · 55 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Gathering

3.14 avg rating — 25,850 ratings — published 2007 — 101 editions
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The Green Road

3.51 avg rating — 16,386 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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The Wren, the Wren

3.52 avg rating — 14,099 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions
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Actress

3.44 avg rating — 6,857 ratings — published 2020 — 19 editions
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The Forgotten Waltz

3.19 avg rating — 6,424 ratings — published 2011 — 66 editions
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Making Babies: Stumbling In...

3.58 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions
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Yesterday's Weather

3.42 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions
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What Are You Like?

3.33 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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The Granta Book of the Iris...

3.90 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Taking Pictures

3.54 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
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“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
Anne Enright, The Gathering

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
Anne Enright, The Gathering

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
Anne Enright, The Gathering

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