Anne Haverty

{{short description|Irish novelist and poet (born 1959)}}

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Anne Haverty (born 1959) is an Irish novelist and poet.[http://www.litark.am/en/participant/anne-haverty Literary Ark :: Participants :: ANNE HAVERTY] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071743/http://www.litark.am/en/participant/anne-haverty |date=2016-03-11 }} 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 in 1997.[http://www.irelandliterature.com/author-database/author-holder/show/243 Ireland Literature Exchange (ILE) | Anne Haverty] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311073049/http://www.irelandliterature.com/author-database/author-holder/show/243 |date=2016-03-11 }} Retrieved 2016-03-10.

Early life and education

Anne Haverty was born in Holycross, County Tipperary, in 1959.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/it-s-a-write-on-crowd-1.1098882|title=It's a write-on crowd|first=Catherine|last=Foley|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=1 November 2021}} She was short-listed for the Whitbread (Costa). She was educated at Trinity College Dublin and The Sorbonne,[http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Haverty.aspx?Cnuas=1 Anne Haverty - Current Member], Aosdana.artscouncil.ie, Retrieved 2016-03-10. winning an under-21 short story competition at Listowel Writers Week.[http://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/Haverty,%20Anne.html Munster Literature Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311091210/http://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/Haverty,%20Anne.html |date=2016-03-11 }} Retrieved 2016-03-10. In 1992, she won a scholarship to the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark.

Career

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.{{fact|date=October 2021}}

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.{{fact|date=October 2021}}

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. Haverty is a frequent contributor to The Irish Times and has written for many publications including the TLS, The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Independent.{{fact|date=October 2021}} 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 a visiting professor at the Adam Mickievicz University in Poznan in 2005 and writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin (2007).{{fact|date=October 2021}}

Personal life

A member of Aosdána, she was married to fellow author Anthony Cronin,[http://www.rte.ie/radio1/miriam-meets/programmes/2010/1003/347862-031010/ Miriam O Callaghan meets writers Anthony Cronin and Anne Haverty], Rte.ie, Retrieved 2016-03-11. and lives in Dublin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/h/Haverty_A/life.htm|title=Anne Haverty|website=Ricorso.net|access-date=1 November 2021}}

Works

=Non-fiction=

  • An Independent Life a biography of Constance Markievicz (1989 & 2016){{Cite web|url=https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/constance-markievicz-anne-haverty|title=Anne Haverty: Constance Markievicz|website=Lilliputpress.ie|access-date=1 November 2021}}
  • Elegant Times: A Dublin Story (1995) the story of Brown Thomas and Switzers department stores.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/anne-haverty/elegant-times.htm|title=Elegant Times by Anne Haverty|website=Fantasticfiction.com|access-date=1 November 2021}}

=Novels=

=Translations=

  • Ein Tag Als Tiger (2002){{Cite book|isbn=3596146046|title=Ein Tag als Tiger: Roman|last1=Haverty|first1=Anne|year=2002|publisher=Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag }}
  • Tigre por un día (1998)[https://web.archive.org/web/20241130084856/https://www.amazon.es/Tigre-por-d%C3%ADa-Modernos-Cl%C3%A1sicos/dp/8476693133]

=Poetry collections=

  • The Beauty of the Moon (1999)
  • A Break In The Journey (2018)

References

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