Mitchell tipped for Booker Prize
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Writer David Mitchell is the bookmakers' favourite to win the Booker Prize as the countdown gets under way.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is the favourite to win the Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.
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The judges couldn&#39;t bring themselves to discuss it, the tabloids couldn&#39;t see beyond it. But there&#39;s much more going on in Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s Booker prize-winning novel than gay sex, he tells Stephen Moss.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst was named Tuesday the winner of Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 for his novel, &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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Michael Longley and broadcaster Tom Paulin are on the shortlist for the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Poetry Prize.
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British author Sarah Waters was  installed on Thursday as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize  after judges left a string of literary heavyweights off the  shortlist for one of the world's top book awards.
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"Chinua Achebe's early work made him the father of modern African literature as an integral part of world literature"  Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart' (1958), and 'Anthills of the Savannah,' published more than 30 years later. He has written more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry. Read more
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EVERY October the British publishing world lets its hair down to celebrate the Man Booker Prize, the most popular and best known - if not the richest - literary award in the British Isles.
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BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst has snared the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty,&#39; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Five hopefuls are waiting to hear who will win one of Africa's leading literary awards - the Caine prize.
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Hours after winning this year&#39;s Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel The Line of Beauty was being reprinted in anticipation of an extra 10,000 sales this week.
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The judges for this year&#39;s Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize declared their shortlist of six novels on Tuesday and promptly decried some entries for the most valued literary prize in the world as &quot;drivel&quot; and &quot;rubbish&quot;.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, was among the finalists announced Tuesday for the 11th annual Kiriyama Prize for works "that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of South Asia."
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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British author David Mitchell was installed on Tuesday as the hottest favorite ever for the Booker prize with his complex time-machine of a tale: "Cloud Atlas."