Anne Enright Books Into UL

Arts and Entertainment - Books

Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:59

Written by Denise Lyons

Man Booker Prize winner for fiction 2007, Anne Enright, gave an evening reading at the University of Limerick over the weekend.

This event was organised as part of the 11th Annual New Voices Conference, which welcomed postgraduate students in Irish Literary Studies and Humanities nationally and internationally to discuss their research.  The conference explored literary and cultural representations of the Irish family and how it has shaped Irish literature and culture in the modern era.

Anne Enright is the fourth Irish writer to win the literary Booker Prize since its inception in 1969 and this was her first time reading from her prize-winning novel The Gathering in Limerick. 

Anne Enright was born on 11th October 1962 in Dublin, where she now lives and works. After studying creative writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter at the University of East Anglia, she worked for six years as a TV producer and director in Ireland.

She has published three collections of short stories among them The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three previous novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. What Are You Like? was short listed for the Whitbread Novel Award and won the Encore Award. Her first work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, was published in 2004.