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Anne Enright on her Booker-winning novel, The Gathering, and how Canada helped make her a writer

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Oct 8, 2023 • 51m
The former inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction, Anne Enright won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, which revolves around the tragic death of a young man inside a large family, told from the perspective of his grieving sister. Enright's new title, The Wren, The Wren, has been called perhaps her best novel yet. *This interview originally aired Feb. 3, 2008. Please note it contains some discussion of suicide.

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