The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize and The Forgotten Waltz won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
In 2015 she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
Enright lives in Dublin.
At The Week magazine she tagged six amazing books, including:
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro (1986).Read about another entry on the list.
Pick up any volume of stories by the Nobel laureate and you will find quiet excellence, compassion, and precision. If you love life as well as books, you must read them all — and then read them again. This collection contains the iconic story "Miles City, Montana," about a family trip that climaxes in a near-tragedy. It is one of the best stories about motherhood ever written.
--Marshal Zeringue