The Irish novelist Anne Enright is one of eight writers set to receive $175,000 (£135,000) each in recognition of their life’s work.
American writer Sigrid Nunez was also selected as part of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, which each year award $1.4m to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, with the aim of allowing writers to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
