FACTBOX-Shock outsider Enright wins Booker

(Reuters) - Dubliner Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, on Tuesday for her bleak Irish family saga "The Gathering".

The prize, founded in 1969, rewards the best novel of the year by a writer from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. It guarantees the winner instant literary fame and a place in bestseller lists around the globe.

Here are some details on the Irish writer:

- She was born in 1962 in Dublin where she now lives and works. She studied creative writing under novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter at Britain's University of East Anglia and worked for six years as a TV producer and director.

-- In 1991 she published "The Portable Virgin", a collection of short stories.

-- Her novels include "The Wig My Father Wore" (1995), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/AerLingus Irish Literature Prize.

-- Then came "What Are You Like" in 2000. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Her third novel was "The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch".

-- The first work of non-fiction by Enright, who is the mother of a boy and a girl, was "Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood" (2004).