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⇱ Anne Enright (Author of The Gathering)

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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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Published on October 26, 2025 04:00
Average rating: 3.35 · 77,765 ratings · 10,853 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors
👁 The Gathering
3.15 avg rating — 26,617 ratings — published 2007 — 103 editions
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👁 The Green Road
3.51 avg rating — 16,804 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions
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👁 The Wren, the Wren
3.51 avg rating — 15,278 ratings — published 2023 — 22 editions
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👁 Actress
3.44 avg rating — 7,051 ratings — published 2020 — 40 editions
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👁 The Forgotten Waltz
3.20 avg rating — 6,511 ratings — published 2011 — 67 editions
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👁 Making Babies: Stumbling In...
3.59 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions
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👁 Yesterday's Weather
3.42 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions
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👁 What Are You Like?
3.33 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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👁 The Granta Book of the Iris...
3.91 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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👁 Taking Pictures
3.54 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
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“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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

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

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