22 Facts About Anne Enright

Anne Teresa Enright was born on 11 October 1962 and is an Irish writer.

Anne Enright's fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.

In 2025, Anne Enright was named as a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize, awarded in recognition of her life's work.

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines.

Anne Enright won an international scholarship to Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied for an International Baccalaureate for two years.

Anne Enright then completed a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.

Anne Enright began writing in earnest when she was given an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday.

Anne Enright won a Chevening Scholarship to the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course, where she studied under Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury and completed an MA degree.

Anne Enright was a television producer and director for RTE in Dublin for six years and produced the RTE programme Nighthawks for four years.

Anne Enright then worked in children's programming for two years and wrote on weekends.

Anne Enright is married to Martin Murphy, who was director of the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire and now works as an adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland.

Anne Enright has described her working practice as involving "rocking the pram with one hand and typing with the other".

Critics have suggested that it was from the work of Flann O'Brien that Anne Enright derived her early efforts.

Anne Enright's father wears a wig that cannot be spoken of in front of him.

Anne Enright's third novel, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, published in 2002, is a fictionalised account of the life of Eliza Lynch, an Irish woman who was the consort of Paraguayan president Francisco Solano Lopez and became Paraguay's most powerful woman in the 19th century.

Anne Enright's 2004 book, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, is a collection of candid and humorous essays about childbirth and motherhood.

Anne Enright's writing has appeared in various magazines and newspapers.

The 4 October 2007 issue of the London Review of Books published Anne Enright's piece "Disliking the McCanns" about Kate and Gerry McCann, the British parents of the three-year-old child Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in suspicious circumstances while on holiday with her family in Portugal in May 2007.

Anne Enright was once a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, and has reviewed for RTE.

Anne Enright has been in The Dublin Review, The Irish Times, The Guardian, Granta and The Paris Review.

Anne Enright's writing is illustrated in the video "Reading Ireland".

Anne Enright received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2017.