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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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