In November 2009, Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright is visiting Malta as an initiative of the Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, in collaboration with the British Council’s Edinburgh Bookcase.
On 16 November Anne Enright will give a public reading of her work at the Aula Magna, Foundation of International Studies, Old University, St. Paul’s Street, Valletta, at 6.30 pm.
A book-signing session will take place after the reading.
The event is free of charge and the general public is encouraged to attend.
was born in 1962. She studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and went on to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is a former RTE television producer.
Her short stories have appeared in several magazines including The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and she won the 2004 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award for her short story, Honey. Her short story collection, The Portable Virgin was published in 1991, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Two collections of stories, Taking Pictures and Yesterday's Weather were published in 2008.
Her novels are The Wig My Father Wore (1995), shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize; What Are You Like? about twins separated at birth who meet when they are 25, winner of the 2001 Encore Award and shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Novel Award; The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002); and The Gathering (2007) about a large Irish family gathering for the funeral of a wayward brother.
The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Anne Enright has also published a book of humorous essays, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (2004).
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