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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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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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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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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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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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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Did you hear the one about the gubernatorial candidate up for a literary prize?
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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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Tipping the Velvet author Sarah Waters is nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her latest book.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner of the Man Booker Prize last fall, 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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Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is the favourite to win the Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Sarah Waters has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel &quot;The Night Watch&quot; after previous front-runner David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist for the award.
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In Cloud Atlas David Mitchell makes writing a high-wire act -- brave, dazzling but too far aloft
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Three literary heavyweights dominated the shortlist for the Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize yesterday, with all except one of the women and one of the first-time novelists on the long list failing to make the grade.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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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.