Prize-winning novel features Thatcher era
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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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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
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LONDON -- 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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Mikhail Gorbachev's battle to push through bold reforms in the USSR is revealed in a new book.
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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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Writer David Mitchell is the bookmakers' favourite to win the Booker Prize as the countdown gets under way.
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Dubliner Anne Enright won the Man Booker  Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, on  Tuesday for her bleak Irish family saga "The Gathering."
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Imperial Life In The Emerald City, on life on the US base in Iraq, wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
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THE most extraordinary scene in this year&#39;s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty has a gay man high on cocaine, dancing with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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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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EVEN Margaret Thatcher&#39;s closest friends and admirers have long despaired at her unwillingness to concede that her wayward son and heir can be trouble.
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
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"The vast majority of the money we've seen has been for Adichie. Punters reckon it's in the bag"  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the Orange Prize, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. via Scotsman.com
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Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.