Anne Enright winner of Man Booker 2007

Irish writer Anne Enright holds a copy of her book after she won the Man Booker fiction prize for "The Gathering," an uncompromising portrait of a troubled family that its author called the literary equivalent of a Hollywood weepie, in London Tuesday Oct. 16 2007. Enright had been considered a long-shot to take Britain's most prestigious, and contentious, literary trophy. The prize, which carries a check for 50,000 pounds (US$100,000; euro75,000), was awarded during a ceremony at London's medieval Guildhall