Gay novel walks away with Booker prize
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s The Line of Beauty has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the first time the prestigious award has been given to a book dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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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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J.K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her the first billionaire author, said on Tuesday she was surprised at the fuss surrounding her announcement the boy wizard's head teacher, Albus Dumbledore, was gay.
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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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Irish author Anne Enright's "bleak" novel The Gathering is the surprise winner of the prestigious  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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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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Novelist Alan Hollinghurst has been writing about gay British life for nearly 20 years, winning critical praise and an admiring, if niche, readership with a set of three finely crafted, often sexually graphic works.
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Six authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including  favourite David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.
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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.
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LONDON -- British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, yesterday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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Six books are on the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, selected from among 22 nominees.
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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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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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The national gay magazine will cease shipping its issues with a second cover concealing its identity.
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British author David Mitchell was  installed as 5-1 favorite on Monday to win the Booker prize,  one of the literary world's most prestigious awards.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.