Award-winning writer Anne Enright kicks off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series with a reading from her latest novel, The Wren, The Wren.

Award-winning writer Anne Enright reads from her latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, to kick off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series. Enright is the author of 8 novels, 2 short story collections and a selection of essays, forthcoming in April 2026. Books will be available for purchase at the event, which is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.

The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater, and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.

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One of Ireland’s leading writers, Anne Enright lives in Dublin, where she was born in 1962. The author of eight novels, two books of short stories and many essays, Enright was the first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018). Awards include the Man Booker Prize (2007), The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2011), The Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters (2025) and The Windham Campbell Prize (2025). A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books, her selected essays Attention will be published in April 2026 by W.W. Norton. She is currently Professor of Fiction at University College Dublin.

This event is presented by The Fund for Irish Studies, a partner of Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.  

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