Anne Haverty's first novel One Day As A Tiger (1997) has been described variously as 'a brilliant depiction of rural life' (Literary Review), a 'work of rare enchantment' (Sunday Telegraph), 'brimming with confidence and originality' (New Statesman) and 'A work of heroic imagination, huge and Dostoevsian'.  A tragi-comedy about an unlikely sheep farmer and his love for a genetically modified lamb and for his brother's wife, it won the Rooney Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread (Costa).

The Far Side Of A Kiss (2000) is very different though it too is concerned with the pathos of love. Set in London in 1820 it is based on Liber Amoris, in which the writer William Hazlitt described his obsessive and bitter infatuation with the girl Sarah Walker. In The Far Side Of A Kiss Sarah is rescued from silence and obscurity to give her side of the affair. Sad though her story is, Sarah tells it with 'an extraordinary lightness of touch and considerable wit'. The Far Side Of A Kiss was long-listed for the Booker. 

The Free And Easy (2006) is an ironic portrayal of the Ireland that flourished in the early years of this century. It was the time of the Celtic Tiger when Ireland, along with much of the rest of the western world, experienced an unprecedented prosperity fuelled by easy credit - and loved every minute of it! Into this dazzled-by-itself world comes Tom Blessman, a naive American and emissary of his knowing but equally naive grand-uncle to play out a tragi-comic role. 'A subtle, funny and mordant take on Ireland past and present from one of the country's most stylish contemporary writers.'

The poetry collection The Beauty Of The Moon (1999) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. "A singing voice for 'our dejected age'" (Derek Mahon)

A Break In the Journey (2018), poems. 'Here is a poet with the savoir-faire, sophistication and accomplishment to let a poem be...' (Paul Perry).

'Has a real freedom and lightness' (John McAuliffe)

A new version of her classic biography of Constance Markievicz, titled Irish Revolutionary, was issued in 2016.

Anne Haverty's teaching positions have included Visiting Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Writing Fellow at TCD and she reviews regularly for national newspapers.

Born in Tipperary she was educated at TCD and the Sorbonne and is a member of Aosdána. A new novel, Fidelity, is forthcoming.

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