Anne Enright

Anne Enright in the Literaturhaus Cologne on November 18, 2008

Anne Enright (born October 11, 1962 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer and literary critic .

Life

After attending Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Vancouver , Canada , Enright studied philosophy at Trinity College in Dublin . She then went to the University of East Anglia on a scholarship and took creative writing with Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury . She worked for a total of twelve years as program director , producer and director for the children's program at Radio Telefís Éireann .

In 1991 her first literary work appeared, a volume of short stories under the title The Portable Virgin .

Enright lives in Bray , County Wicklow , is married to a theater manager and director and has two children.

Awards and honors

• 1991: Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for younger, emerging Irish writers for The Portable Virgin
• 2007: Booker Prize , the most important literary prize for an English-language work, for her novel The Gathering
• 2008: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for The Gathering
• 2012: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction for The Forgotten Waltz (German: Anatomy of an Affair)
• In 2015 Anne Enright was chosen by the Irish Art Council as the first Poet Laureate in her country.
• 2015: Irish Book Award (Novel of the Year) for The Green Road
• 2016: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for The Green Road
• 2017: Shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award with The Green Road

Works

Novels

• 1995 The Wig My Father Wore (novel)
  • As far away angels see , German by Jürgen Schneider. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 3-596-13781-0
• 2000 What Are You Like? (Novel)
• 2002 The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (novel)
  • Elisa's Desires , German by Angela Praesent. DuMont, Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-8321-7840-6
• 2007 The Gathering (novel)
  • The family reunion , German by Hans-Christian Oeser . DVA, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-421-04370-2
• 2011 The Forgotten Waltz (novel)
  • Anatomy of an Affair , German by Petra Kindler and Hans-Christian Oeser. DVA, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-421-04540-9 .
• 2015 The Green Road (novel).
  • 2015: Rosaleens Fest , novel, German by Hans-Christian Oeser. DVA, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04700-7 .
• 2020 Actress (Roman).

stories

• 1991 The Portable Virgin (short stories)
  • The portable virgin , German by Jürgen Schneider. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999. ISBN 3-596-13887-6
• 2008 Taking Pictures (short stories)
  • Everything you want , German by Hans-Christian Oeser and Jürgen Schneider. DVA, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-421-04383-2
• 2009 Yesterday's Weather (short stories)

Non-fiction

• 2004 Making Babies. Stumbling into Motherhood (essays)
  • A godsend. Experiences of a mother , German by Maria Mill. DuMont, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-8321-7881-3

editor

• 2011 The Granta Book Of The Irish Short Story

Web links

Commons : Anne Enright  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anne Enright in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Anne Enright at perlentaucher.de
• “Victory of an Outsider” , Die Zeit , November 20, 2008
• “Everyone hates their family” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 21, 2008
• Example of a literary review by Anne Enright in The Guardian of 20 September 2013 on Eimear McBride (English)
• "The problems in literature should not be solvable" , Interview, Die Welt , November 20, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Man Booker Prize ( Memento of November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ "The surprise winner" , taz , October 18, 2007
3. ^ "Anne Enright wins Booker Prize" , Der Tagesspiegel , October 17, 2007
4. ^ "Victory of an Outsider" , Zeit Online , November 20, 2008
5. ^ Gina Thomas: Anne Enright. First Irish Poet Laureate . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 4, 2015, p. 12.
6. ↑ The literary novel on the sidelines? A decision for style and seriousness - the Irish writer Anne Enright wins the Booker Prize , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 18, 2007