29 Feb 2020

Anne Enright: on her latest novel "Actress"

From Saturday Morning, 9:07 am on 29 February 2020

Irish author Anne Enright won the Booker Prize in 2007 for her novel The Gathering.

She returns with her seventh novel, Actress, which explores a daughter's complex relationship with her famous mother.

The story's loosely based on that of the Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell and is told by her daughter Norah.

In 2015 Enright was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

Anne Enright and the cover of her book "Actress featuring Carrie Fisher watching her mother Debbie Reynolds

Anne Enright and the cover of her book "Actress featuring Carrie Fisher watching her mother Photo: supplied / Hugh Chaloner