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Anne Enright

Book Notes: Enright Honors McGahern

By Tom Deignan

Fall 2024

October 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Next year will mark six decades since celebrated Irish novelist and short story writer John McGahern was censored and banned in his own country. Now, another celebrated writer – Anne Enright, Ireland’s first-ever “laureate” for fiction – is commemorating McGahern’s life and career with fond memories as well as new revelations. Back in 1965, McGahern wrote The Dark, which … [Read more...] about Book Notes: Enright Honors McGahern

Book Notes:
Sebastian Barry Is Ireland’s New Fiction Laureate

By Dave Lewis, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Author Sebastian Barry, known for his representation of varying perspectives during Ireland’s revolutionary period in The Steward of Christendom and A Long Long Way, was announced as Ireland’s new Laureate for Irish Fiction by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins in February. He will hold a term of three years, through 2021, and succeeds writer Anne Enright (The Portable … [Read more...] about Book Notes:
Sebastian Barry Is Ireland’s New Fiction Laureate

Two Irish Writers Shortlisted for Bailey’s Prize

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2016href="https://www.irishamerica.com/in-this-issue-2016-june-july">Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2016

June 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Irish novelists Anne Enright and Lisa McInerney have been shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, a £30,000 prize awarded for any original novel written in English and published in the U.K. Enright, one of Ireland’s best-known writers, was nominated for her 2015 novel The Green Road, which focuses on four siblings who return home when their mother announces her … [Read more...] about Two Irish Writers Shortlisted for Bailey’s Prize

Anne Enright’s “Springs of Affection” for Maeve Brennan

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 2016

June 1, 2016 by 2 Comments

Anne Enright delivered the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction lecture on writer Maeve Brennan at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at New York University. Enright’s lecture served as the introduction to a new edition of Brennan’s Dublin stories, The Springs of Affection, published in June 2016. The historic New York City townhouse at 58 West Tenth Street is abuzz with … [Read more...] about Anne Enright’s “Springs of Affection” for Maeve Brennan

What Are You Like?
Anne Enright

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2015

July 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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. Her 2007 novel, The Gathering, won the Man Booker Prize, and her novel, The Forgotten Waltz, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is currently the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her most recent book, … [Read more...] about What Are You Like?
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