When I was 17 I took on a class of six-year-olds for a week. When the Angelus rang at noon, they stood up in silence and I realised I was supposed to recite the prayer, which I did not know. I said: “There will be no Angelus today because of that child fidgeting at the back.”
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Anne Enright
Novelist and short-story writer
Ireland · b. 1962
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Irish novelist and short-story writer whose books include The Gathering, which won the Booker Prize in 2007, The Forgotten Waltz and Actress. She was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
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