Alan Hollinghurst wins UK Booker Prize
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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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British director Mike Leigh&#39;s &amp;quotVera Drake&quot;, a movie portraying a back-street abortionist in 1950s London, won the top prize on Saturday for the best film at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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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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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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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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One of the world&#39;s most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize for fiction, has been won by British writer Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;.
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British film Atonement wins four out of six categories in the newly named Richard Attenborough Film Awards.
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British Author David Mitchell was installed as runaway favorite on Thursday to capture the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's top literary awards, for his ambitious, multi-layered novel "Cloud Atlas."
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Mike Leigh's abortion film Vera Drake wins six prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.
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Every October the British publishing world celebrates the Man Booker Prize. For many, the main action is in Soho, where publishing houses take over exclusive social clubs.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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A gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards.
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the 2004 Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary award issued by Britain, for his gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty&quot;.
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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.
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BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst has snared the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty,&#39; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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Set in London during the gilded era of the early 1980's, Alan Hollinghurst's new novel reads like an updated "Brideshead Revisited."