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

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in 1997.

Biography

Anne Haverty was born in

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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 ''

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''. Haverty is a frequent contributor to ''

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'' and has written for many publications including the '' TLS'', ''

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'' 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

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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

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, she was married to fellow author

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, and lives in

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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

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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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