Anne Enright is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction and was awarded the honour by the Arts Council in early 2015. She has published essays, short stories and fiction. The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Irish Novel of the Year, and The Forgotten Waltz (2011) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Her latest novel, The Green Road (2015), won the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. The Arts Council and The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Anne Enright, in association with The Stinging Fly present the annual Laureate for Irish Fiction Lecture: ‘An Irishwoman Abroad: Maeve Brennan Goes Mad In New York’.