Anne Enright on the Short Story
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This is part three of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery O\\u2019Connor thought best constituted a good short story. I\\u2019ve listed some of them here.
\\xa0Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962, studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and went on to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is a former RTE television producer. Her short story collection, The Portable Virgin was published in 1991, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.\\xa0Two collections of stories,\\xa0Taking Pictures and Yesterday\\u2019s Weather\\xa0were published in 2008. Her novels are The Wig My Father Wore (1995); What Are You Like? winner of the 2001 Encore Award; The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002); and The Gathering (2007) which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
We met at the IFOA in Toronto to talk about the short story, and, in so doing , about Beckett\\u2019s Happy Days, housewives with problems,\\xa0 ideology, awakenings, characters\\u2019 voices, self deception, just doing it, James Joyce and women writers.
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