Alan Hollinghurst wins Booker prize
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s explicitly gay novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;, a satire on Britain under Margaret Thatcher, has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, the prestigious international literary award.
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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Berlin Philharmonic conductor Sir Simon Rattle wins a prize for inspiring young people's interest in music.
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Mike Leigh's 1950s drama Vera Drake is named best film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
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Irish author Anne Enright's "bleak" novel The Gathering is the surprise winner of the prestigious  Booker Prize.
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&quot;Cloud Atlas&quot; by the British-born, Ireland-based author David Mitchell was the early favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize, a day after the shortlist of six novels was announced.
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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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British Author David Mitchell was installed as runaway favorite on Thursday to capture the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's top literary awards, for his ambitious, multi-layered novel "Cloud Atlas."
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A gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards.Comment
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Sean O'Brien is announced as the winner of the TS Eliot prize for his poetry collection The Drowned Book.
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LONDON: Judges will soon reveal a shortlist of six books in the running for the Man Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s top literary awards.
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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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The Mercury Music Prize, the record industry&#39;s equivalent of the literary world&#39;s Booker prize, was won last night by Franz Ferdinand, a four-piece rock band from Glasgow.
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is won by journalist Iain Hollingshead for his first novel, Twenty Something.