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| Outsider Enright wins Booker race | Outsider Enright wins Booker race |
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| Irish author Anne Enright has won this year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in literature. | Irish author Anne Enright has won this year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in literature. |
| The novelist's family saga The Gathering beat bookmakers' favourites Ian McEwan and Lloyd Jones to be named the best novel of the past 12 months. | The novelist's family saga The Gathering beat bookmakers' favourites Ian McEwan and Lloyd Jones to be named the best novel of the past 12 months. |
| The other authors on the £50,000 prize's shortlist were Mohsin Hamid, Nicola Barker and Indra Sinha. | The other authors on the £50,000 prize's shortlist were Mohsin Hamid, Nicola Barker and Indra Sinha. |
| Howard Davies, who chaired the judges, said Enright's book was "powerful, uncomfortable and, at times, angry". | Howard Davies, who chaired the judges, said Enright's book was "powerful, uncomfortable and, at times, angry". |
| "The Gathering is an unflinching look at a grieving family in tough and striking language," he said. "We think she is an impressive novelist, we expect to hear a lot more from her. | "The Gathering is an unflinching look at a grieving family in tough and striking language," he said. "We think she is an impressive novelist, we expect to hear a lot more from her. |
| "The book is powerful, it pulls you along and it has an absolutely brilliant ending. It has one of the best last sentences of any novel I have ever read." | "The book is powerful, it pulls you along and it has an absolutely brilliant ending. It has one of the best last sentences of any novel I have ever read." |
| I was ready for anything - possibly anything except that Anne Enright | I was ready for anything - possibly anything except that Anne Enright |
| Enright was regarded as one of the outsiders for the award, and said she was surprised to win. | Enright was regarded as one of the outsiders for the award, and said she was surprised to win. |
| "I am still churning it through," she told BBC Radio 4. "Tomorrow, I'll wake up and go 'whoopee'. | "I am still churning it through," she told BBC Radio 4. "Tomorrow, I'll wake up and go 'whoopee'. |
| "I was ready for anything - possibly anything except that," she added. | "I was ready for anything - possibly anything except that," she added. |
| The Gathering is the fourth novel by the 45-year-old former television producer. | The Gathering is the fourth novel by the 45-year-old former television producer. |
| BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST Anne Enright - The GatheringNicola Barker - DarkmansMohsin Hamid - The Reluctant FundamentalistLloyd Jones - Mister PipIan McEwan - On Chesil BeachIndra Sinha - Animal's People It is about an Irish woman who is prompted by her brother's suicide to revisit three generations of bleak history of her large, dysfunctional family. | |
| Mr Davies said the book was "depressing" and "a little bleak" in places - but Enright said she did not mind those descriptions. "I love them," she said. "They're entirely fair. It's not a cheerful book." | |
| Enright's previous novels include the Whitbread-nominated What Are You Like? in 2000. She has also released Making Babies, her light-hearted diaries of motherhood. | Enright's previous novels include the Whitbread-nominated What Are You Like? in 2000. She has also released Making Babies, her light-hearted diaries of motherhood. |
| Of the six authors in contention for this year's Booker, only McEwan had even been shortlisted in the past. He won in 1998 with Amsterdam. | Of the six authors in contention for this year's Booker, only McEwan had even been shortlisted in the past. He won in 1998 with Amsterdam. |