7 March 2025
Professor Anne Enright honoured with Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters
UCD Professor and Booker Prize winner (opens in a new window)Anne Enrightis this year's recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters.
Awarded by (opens in a new window)Glucksman Ireland House– the Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University – the honour recognises the best in Irish literature and arts.
Its past recipients include former Irish President Mary McAleese, authors Edna O'Brien and Colm Tóibín, journalist and editor Pete Hamill, poet Paul Muldoon, and actress Ruth Negga.
NamedIreland’s first Professor of Fiction in 2018, Enright is the Professor of Creative Writing at theUCD School of English, Drama and Film.
In a literary career that has delivered seven novels, three short story collections, a memoir of motherhood, the Dublin writer has been called an integral part of Ireland’s contemporary literary renaissance.
She won the coveted Man Booker prize, awarded each year to the best original English language novel published in Ireland and the UK, in 2007 for her fourth novel ‘The Gathering’, published by Jonathan Cape.
Professor Enright received the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters at Glucksman Ireland House’s 13th annual dinner gala in Manhattan.
Each year, the NYU Centre of Irish and Irish-American Studies celebrates the best in Irish literature and arts, journalism, and philanthropy through three awards: the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters, the Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership, and the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence.
Alongside Professor Enright, the 2025 honourees were former Bridgewater Associates co-CEO Eileen Murray (Lewis L. Glucksman Award for Leadership), and CNN Anchor and White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins (Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence).
As a hub for Irish and Irish-American Studies, Glucksman Ireland House aims to foster excellence in the study of Ireland, Irish America, and the Irish Diaspora in New York and across the globe.
By: David Kearns, Digital Journalist / Media Officer, UCD University Relations