Anne Enright (born 1962 in Dublin) is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels.
She was educated at Lester Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at Trinity College Dublin, and at the University of East Anglia, where she earned an M.A. in the creative writing course and was taught by Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury. For six years, she was a television producer and director for RTÉ in Dublin.She began writing full-time in 1993.
Her writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Granta, and collected in The Portable Virgin, her 1991 work which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature that year. Her novels include The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, which won the Royal Society of Authors Encore Prize and was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel Award, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering (2007). Occasional essays appear in the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, and the Irish Times. Her non-fiction book about motherhood, Making Babies, was published in 2005.
She was once a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ, and now reviews for The Guardian. On 16 October 2007 she was awarded the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering which includes a £50,000 prize
She is married to Martin Murphy, and lives in Bray, County Wicklow.
The Gathering is a novel by the Irish author Anne Enright. It is Enright's fourth book. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. It had been an outsider to win the prize, but was eventually chosen unanimously.
The novel is a saga about an Irish family set in Ireland and England.It begins with the suicide of Liam Hegarty. His family gather in Dublin for his wake. Liam's sister Veronica, the novel's narrator, looks through her family's history to try and make sense of his death. In the process she uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family. Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."
一般家庭中都存在两种人与人之间最亲密的关系——父母与子女、丈夫与妻子。这两种亲密关系都与肉体和爱有关:前者因为先天的肉体脱胎关系而天然相爱,后者因为后天的相爱而追求肉体相融。因为夫妻之间的爱和亲密关系都是后天的,所以夫与妻既相爱又相互伤害并不奇怪;而父母与...
评分文/小书蠹找乐子 人来人往的聚会并无欢欣,因为它是因葬礼而起。安﹒恩莱特以《聚会》命名小说,怎不教人侧目? 小说以主人公薇罗妮卡的视角,讲述了由哥哥黎安葬礼牵扯出的家族故事。母亲生育了12个子女,人越多,彼此却越生疏;一家人有着共同血脉、共同渊源,却根本谈不上...
评分为父母担心的孩子不曾见识,被父母伤害的伤痕。那些留在我们身体上、心理上的伤痕,我们要如何和它们相处呢?这是个歌颂成功、赞美甜蜜的世界。我们这种残破的功能不全者,向内得不到家庭之暖,向外得不到社会认可支持。我们在哪里才可以坦然生存呢? 有时候的做法是,带上面具...
评分没有序言,没有后记,这是作家出版社的典型风格,原来曾有一批“作家参考丛书”就是这样,不是为普通读者消遣所用。 上周出门前将这本书放到背包内,在飞往美国的飞机上读了一遍,在一周后飞回时又读了一遍。如果不是这样的机会,也不会在一周内读上二遍,否则也不能品出它的...
评分文/小书蠹找乐子 人来人往的聚会并无欢欣,因为它是因葬礼而起。安﹒恩莱特以《聚会》命名小说,怎不教人侧目? 小说以主人公薇罗妮卡的视角,讲述了由哥哥黎安葬礼牵扯出的家族故事。母亲生育了12个子女,人越多,彼此却越生疏;一家人有着共同血脉、共同渊源,却根本谈不上...
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评分A dark and fragmentary record about family, past trauma and death; the book is about delving into the dark past and seeking reconciliation with it. It's sanity and madness, devastation and redemption, opening a wound and healing it all at the same time.It's a rich book. I have to confess that much of its content is beyond my understanding.
评分怪就怪你不该那样美。 孤独。
评分A dark and fragmentary record about family, past trauma and death; the book is about delving into the dark past and seeking reconciliation with it. It's sanity and madness, devastation and redemption, opening a wound and healing it all at the same time.It's a rich book. I have to confess that much of its content is beyond my understanding.
评分A dark and fragmentary record about family, past trauma and death; the book is about delving into the dark past and seeking reconciliation with it. It's sanity and madness, devastation and redemption, opening a wound and healing it all at the same time.It's a rich book. I have to confess that much of its content is beyond my understanding.
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