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The Forgotten Waltz

2011, Anne Enright

Anne Teresa Enright is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007) she has published seven novels, many short stories and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Essays on literary themes appear in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Her fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.

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