Novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39; Wins Booker
128101
Five of the six Man Booker Prize nominees, left to right, Gerard Woodward, Colm Toibin, Achmat Dangor, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Hall, pose in London, hours before the winner is announced Tuesday Oct. 19, 2004.
554287
The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
276019
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;.
53503
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.
418619
The usual pre-National Book Awards&#39; (NBA) anticipation was heightened by controversy over the fiction nominees (five women authors, all living in New York) and wonder at the nomination of the surprisingly readable 9/11 Commission&#39;s The 9/11 Commission
151607
Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
402173
Recently catapulted from relative obscurity to the shortlist for this yearâs Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jonesâs âMister Pipâ is an improbably palatable visit to a pedagogueâs paradise.
554816
Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
383702
When Harper Lee wrote &quot;To  Kill A Mockingbird&quot; she could not have known it would be hailed  as a classic, much less that it would shape the way her  hometown viewed its past.
714263
Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, was awarded the 60,000 pound Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
529670
Six books are on the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, selected from among 22 nominees.
136982
Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
615000
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.
132190
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.
25221
Lily Tuck, this year&#39;s winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands.
432430
&quot;Atonement,&quot; Ian  McEwan&#39;s best-selling novel of love thwarted by juvenile  fantasy, ranks among the best novel adaptations of recent  times.
368494
Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.