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Author(s): Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Writing on Life, Art and the World
The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life
'Anne Enright might just be Ireland's greatest living writer' THE TIMES
'A joy to read' MAGGIE O'FARRELL
For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.
These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enright's own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.
In Enright's fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.
'One of the best essayists alive' MEGAN NOLAN, OBSERVER
'Confirms the intelligence, compassion and humour of the mind behind the novels' INDEPENDENT
'A glorious antidote to the mad, sad world' EIMEAR MCBRIDE
'So alert, so attuned, so alive' LUCY CALDWELL
About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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