Anne Haverty (born 1959) is an Irish novelist and poet.
[Literary Ark :: Participants :: ANNE HAVERTY]
Retrieved 2016-03-11. Haverty was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne and in 1992 won a scholarship to the European Film School at Ebeltoft in Denmark. Among Haverty's novels, ''
One Day as a Tiger'' won the
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the Irish American businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers franchise and former US Ambassador to Ireland. The prize is awarded to Irish writers aged ...
in 1997.
Biography
Anne Haverty was born in
Holycross
Holycross () is a village and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is one of 21 civil parishes in the barony of Eliogarty. The civil parish straddles two counties and the baronies of Eliogarty and of Middle Third (South Tipperary). It ...
,
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after t ...
in 1959. Haverty was short-listed for the
Whitbread (Costa). ''The Far Side of a Kiss'' was long-listed for the
Booker. A poetry collection, ''The Beauty Of The Moon'', was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Haverty's biography ''Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life'' was first published in 1989 and re-issued in a revised edition as ''Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary'' in 2016.
She co-directed (with Frank Stapleton) the documentary ''The Whole World In His Hands'', which won a special award at the Celtic Film Festival, and has written film and radio scripts including an adaptation of ''
The Real Charlotte
''The Real Charlotte'' is a novel (written between 1888 and 1890, and published in 1894) by the Anglo-Irish writing partnership Somerville and Ross, composed of Edith Somerville (1858–1949) and Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915).
The first ...
''. Haverty is a frequent contributor to ''
The Irish Times
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'' and has written for many publications including the ''
TLS'', ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was f ...
'' and the ''
Sunday Independent''.
Her work has appeared in several anthologies and has been translated into languages including German, Spanish, Portuguese and Armenian. She has read and lectured widely in Ireland and internationally. She was a member of the Literature Express (2000), was Visiting Professor at the Adam Mickievicz University in Poznan in 2005 and Writer In Residence at Trinity College Dublin (2007).
Haverty was educated at
Trinity College Dublin
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and
The Sorbonne,
[Anne Haverty - Current Member]
Aosdana.artscouncil.ie, Retrieved 2016-03-10. winning an under-21 short story competition at
Listowel Writers Week. In 1992, she got a scholarship to the
European Film College
European Film College (Danish: Den Europæiske Filmhøjskole) is a film school and a Danish folk high school in Denmark, offering 1-year film foundation programme in practical filmmaking covering the fields of screenwriting, camera, sound, acting ...
in
Ebeltoft
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,
[ she was married to fellow author ]Anthony Cronin
Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (28 December 1923 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, arts activist, biographer, commentator, critic, editor and barrister.
Early life and family
Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford on 28 December ...
, and lives in Dublin
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.
Non-fiction
*''An Independent Life'' a biography of Constance Markievicz (1989 & 2016)
*''Elegant Times: A Dublin Story'' (1995) the story of Brown Thomas
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and Switzers department stores.
Novels
*'' One Day as a Tiger'' (1997)
*''The Far Side of a Kiss'' (2000)
*''The Free and Easy'' (2006)
Translations
*''Ein Tag Als Tiger'' (2002)
*''Tigre por un día'' (1998)
Poetry collections
*''The Beauty of the Moon'' (1999)
*''A Break In The Journey'' (2018)
References
External links
*
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1959 births
Living people
20th-century Irish women writers
21st-century Irish women writers
People from County Tipperary
Irish women novelists
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
University of Paris alumni
Aosdána members
Irish women poets
Irish women screenwriters
Writers from Dublin (city)
20th-century Irish novelists
20th-century Irish poets
21st-century Irish novelists
Irish cinematographers
Women cinematographers