Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962. She has published a collection of stories, The Portable Virgin(Secker and Warburg 1991), which won the Rooney Prize that year.
Her novels are The Wig My Father Wore, (Jonathan Cape 1995), which was shortlisted for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize; What Are You Like?(Jonathan Cape 2000), which won the Royal Society of Authors Encore Prize; The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch(Jonathan Cape 2002); and The Gathering(Jonathan Cape, 2007).
Uncollected short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Reviewand Granta.
She was the inaugural winner of the Davy Byrne Award for her short story Honey.
Her other work includes a book of essays, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood(London, Jonathan Cape 2004). She lives in Bray, Co Wicklow
Irish winners: Previous Bookers
2005:John Banville - The Sea
1993:Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha