The festival is delighted to welcome Anne Enright to explore her writing life and latest work in a wide-ranging conversation with Niamh Campbell. Attention is a collection of essays in which Anne turns her acute gaze on identity, power, memory and the spaces where personal and public meet.

Other books include The Wren, The Wren, The Green Road and Actress. She was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction and won the Booker Prize in 2007 for her novel, The Gathering. Her work has been described as “elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original”.

Anne has said of the act of writing “If you keep close to your sentences, to the sweetness of getting them right, then you will be interested, you will be safe in your imagining, and the words will flow”. Anne won The Andrew Carnegie medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Writers’ Prize for Fiction the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters and The Windham Campbell Prize.

Niamh Campbell is the author of This Happy and We Were Young. Her latest book is Make Strange.  She has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

Tickets €17/€15 from glór box office on 065 6843103 or online here

Details of all events to be held at Ennis Book Club Festival from March 6 -8 can be found here

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The Ennis Book Club Festival is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.