Anne Enright
Irish novelist who won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering, a novel of family grief and memory. Her sharp, mordant intelligence dissects Irish bourgeois life with feminist precision. She is one of the dominant voices in contemporary Irish fiction.
Works
- The GatheringA family gathers after a suicide, unraveling dark secrets and complex love
- The Forgotten WaltzA woman discovers an affair, exploring the messy reality of adult relationships
- The Wig My Father WoreA woman inherits her father's toupee, probing family dysfunction and identity
- What Are You Like?A fragmentary novel about identity, family, and the performance of self
- ActressA woman reflects on fame, identity, and the cost of a theatrical career
- Taking PicturesA woman travels photographing family, probing memory, identity, and relationships