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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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‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home

Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?

In the autumn of 2023, I wanted to return to the house where I was raised in order to stand in the garage and look at some marks I made on the wall sometime towards the end of my childhood. I had discovered some tins of black and white gloss paint left on the floor and a narrow

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Average rating: 3.35 · 76,475 ratings · 10,680 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Gathering 3.15 avg rating — 26,288 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Green Road 3.51 avg rating — 16,616 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wren, the Wren 3.52 avg rating — 14,769 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Actress 3.44 avg rating — 6,957 ratings — published 2020 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgotten Waltz 3.20 avg rating — 6,489 ratings — published 2011 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood 3.58 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yesterday's Weather 3.41 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Are You Like? 3.33 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story 3.90 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Pictures 3.53 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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

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

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July is literary/general fiction. This list of books is pulled from Booker Prize eligible, nominees for the Longlist, Shortlist or winners. Voting will be open through May 31.

Unless

Carol Shields

3 votes, 75.0%

The Gathering

Anne Enright

1 vote, 25.0%

The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch

0 votes, 0.0%

Chatterton

Peter Ackroyd

0 votes, 0.0%

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

0 votes, 0.0%

4 total votes

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