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
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County Tipperary
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, in 1959. She was short-listed for the Whitbread (Costa). She was educated at
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...
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
Ebeltoft is an old port town on the central east coast of Denmark with a population of 7,287 (1 January 2025).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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'' 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 a visiting professor at the Adam Mickievicz University in Poznan in 2005 and writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin (2007).
Personal life
A member of
Aosdána
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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 Decembe ...
, and lives in
Dublin
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.
Works
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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