British author wins Booker prize for gay novel on Thatcherism
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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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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London: The story of Basil DâOliveiraâs life as a South African-born cricketer during apartheid won Britainâs sports book of the year award.
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Literary fans get the chance to air their views on who should win the first Man Booker International Prize.
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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.
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Author JK Rowling receives an  outstanding achievement prize at the South Bank Show awards.
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Jeremy Deller, the London-based artist who describes himself as âpart alchemist, part social anthropologistâ, is the winner of this year&#39;s Â£25,000 Turner Prize.
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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.
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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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The novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; written by Alan Hollinghurst, has won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award. The book tells a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London,.
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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"Chinua Achebe's early work made him the father of modern African literature as an integral part of world literature"  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.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart' (1958), and 'Anthills of the Savannah,' published more than 30 years later. He has written more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry. Read more
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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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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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"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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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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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.