Briton bags Booker for satire
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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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."
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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Arts & entertainment: Yesterday a judge branded a daytime chat show 'human bear-baiting'. Jennifer Saunders explains why she decided the format was ripe for satire.
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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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The tabloids scoffed, government ministers vowed to step up security and Britons had a good laugh -- that is when they weren&#39;t worrying about the security implications.
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A reader sends in a photograph of the actor in London.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst poses with his book, The Line of Beauty, winner of The 2004 Booker Prizer Literary Prize. Photo: AFP. British author Alan Hollinghurst today won the Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s
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The Culture Project's play about British detainees in Cuba exerts an icy visceral charge that is never achieved by flashier satire like Tim Robbins's "Embedded."
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Every October the British publishing world celebrates the Man Booker Prize. For many, the main action is in Soho, where publishing houses take over exclusive social clubs.
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The writers behind BBC comedy The Thick Of It are working on a political satire film, it is confirmed.
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AN audience was sickened to hear Billy Connolly joke about the fate of British hostage Ken Bigley during a live show. Referring to the terrorists who threatened to behead Bigley, the Scots
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"The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's novel about a young gay man in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize.
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One of BritainÂs most lauded authors has been accused in newspaper articles of copying phrases for his best-selling novel ÂAtonementÂ in 2001 from a memoir published in 1977.
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Inspired by a Monty Python sketch, a charity fundraiser in London with an odd-ball sense of humour submitted himself to being slapped in the face with a couple of wet fish.
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New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones was the target of an unprecedented gamble as the shortlist was announced on Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards.
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British author Sarah Waters was installed  as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize after judges left a string of