Anne Griffin

Anne Griffin (born 9 January 1969) is an Irish novelist and short story writer from Dublin. She is the author of the novels When All Is Said, Listening Still (2021), and The Island of Longing (2023). When All Is Said won the 2019 Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year award. Griffin's work has also been shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize, the Kate O'Brien Award and the Christopher Bland Prize, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Life Originally from a working class family in Blackrock in Dublin, Griffin worked for bookseller Waterstones. RTÉ's Eileen Dunne describes it as a "little peach of a book", Listening Still was published in 2021. Her third novel, The Island of Longin was chosen as Eason's book of the month in May 2023.

Awards As a short story writer, Griffin was awarded the John McGahern Award for Literature. She has been shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and the Sunday Business Post Short Story Award. "When All is Said" won the Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer in 2019.

Personal life Griffin lives in Mullingar, County Westmeath, with her husband, James Lowry, and their son, Adam.

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