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Informationen zum Autor Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather , one book of non-fiction, Making Babies , and eight novels, including The Gathering , which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz , which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road , which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her most recent novel, The Wren, The Wren , was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Klappentext If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child gor mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back. Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.
