Anne Enright






Anne Enright

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born
October 11, 1962

place of birth
Dublin, Ireland


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Anne Enright is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author.

She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels.

Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 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.




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The Gathering The Gathering
by Anne Enright
avg rating 2.99 — 3,641 ratings — published 2007
14 editions
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Yesterday's Weather Yesterday's Weather
by Anne Enright
avg rating 3.19 — 112 ratings — published 2008
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What Are You Like?: A Novel What Are You Like?: A Novel
by Anne Enright
avg rating 3.26 — 61 ratings — published 2000
6 editions
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The Wig My Father Wore The Wig My Father Wore
by Anne Enright
avg rating 2.84 — 43 ratings — published 1995
4 editions
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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A... The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel
by Anne Enright
avg rating 3.07 — 30 ratings — published 2002
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Making Babies Making Babies
by Anne Enright
avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published 2004
3 editions
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Taking Pictures Taking Pictures
by Anne Enright
avg rating 3.00 — 19 ratings — published 2008
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The Portable Virgin The Portable Virgin
by Anne Enright
avg rating 4.07 — 14 ratings — published 1991
4 editions
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The Gathering The Gathering (Vintage Booker)
by Anne Enright
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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Das Familientreffen Das Familientreffen
by Anne Enright
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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"And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see."
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"People do not change, they are merely revealed."
Anne Enright (The Gathering)
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"There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

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Anne Enright (The Gathering)
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