Anne Enright is an Irish writer best known for The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007, and The Forgotten Waltz, which won the Andre Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Her other novels include The Green Road and Actress, the story of a daughter working through the legacy of her famous actress mother. She also wrote the non-fiction book Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, drawn from the births of her two children, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Enright was the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, serving from 2015 to 2018.
