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October 17, 2007

Surprise Booker Prize Winner Announced

Anne Enright's The Gathering, a dark novel about three generations of an Irish family hiding a bitter secret, was the surprise winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced today in London. Most literary observers considered Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip to be the favorites to win the prize, which rewards the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

Posted by hplreadingcorner at October 17, 2007 4:22 PM