The Portable Virgin
Anne EnrightMan Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style
Discover Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories.
'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' — Angela Carter
The characters in Anne Enright's fierce & witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.
'Quirky, subversive, original wit & an imaginative linguistic fluency' — Irish Times
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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives & works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, & seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, & The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year & won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, & in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.