Levy takes Whitbread novel prize
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author, while Susan Fletcher wins best first novel.
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Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.
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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
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Alison Louise Kennedy was awarded one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards on Tuesday for "Day", a novel about a World War II veteran coming to terms with his past.
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Scottish author and stand up comic AL Kennedy wins the Â£25,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her novel Day.
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LONDON - British writer Alan Hollinghurst was named Tuesday winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, arguably the world&#39;s most prestigious literary award, for his critically acclaimed gay novel The Line of Beauty.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 with his novel &quot;The Line of Beauty.&quot;. &quot;The Line of Beauty&quot; is a colorful tale about an Oxford University graduate living in the London
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Versatile Scottish writer gains victory at lastÂ· Judges hail postwar novel as a masterpiece
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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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A "luminous" debut novel about a young girl sent to live in rural Wales is up against a biography of tragic Mary Queen of Scots in the competition for one of Britain's top literary awards.
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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Adaptation of Ian McEwan novel appears to be film to beat at next month's awards
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Scottish writer and standup comedian A.L. Kennedy has won Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel about a World War II veteran whose work as an extra on a war film forces him to confront his past.
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The Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, was due to be handed out late, with a particular title emerging as one of the most overwhelming favourites in its 35-year history.
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For the first time in the 36-year history of the Booker prize, the award has gone to a book with a strong gay theme, The Line of Beauty.