Anne Enright

Writer Anne Enright is castaway by Lauren Laverne.

Anne won the Booker Prize for her fourth novel, The Gathering, in 2007. She has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children.

Born in Dublin in 1962, Anne is the youngest of five children. After taking an MA in Creative Writing at University of East Anglia, with teaching from Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury, she worked for six years as a TV producer for the Irish broadcaster RTE.

When her TV work left her feeling burned out, she began her writing career in earnest. Her book of short stories, The Portable Virgin, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1991, and she published her first novel, The Wig My Father Wore, in 1995. The Wren, her latest novel was published in 2023.

DISC ONE: Brahms Intermezzos: Op. 117, No.1 by Glenn Gould
DISC TWO: Jersey Girl by Tom Waits
DISC THREE: A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
DISC FOUR: Then You’ll Remember Me by Dé Danann
DISC FIVE: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
DISC SIX: Hiawatha by Laurie Anderson
DISC SEVEN: Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen
DISC EIGHT: Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan Tutte, composed by Mozart, conducted by Karl Böhm, performed by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Walter Berry, Christa Ludwig and Philharmonia Orchestra.

BOOK CHOICE: 'In Search of Lost Time’ by Marcel Proust

LUXURY ITEM: High thread-count cotton sheets

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan Tutte, composed by Mozart

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2020.