Six Books on Shorlist for Booker Prize
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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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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner of the Man Booker Prize last fall, was among the finalists announced Tuesday for the 11th annual Kiriyama Prize for works "that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of South Asia."
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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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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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1. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton
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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 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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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel, The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London, won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award - the Booker Prize.
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The judges couldn&#39;t bring themselves to discuss it, the tabloids couldn&#39;t see beyond it. But there&#39;s much more going on in Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s Booker prize-winning novel than gay sex, he tells Stephen Moss.
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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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JK Rowling and publisher Bloomsbury Books have announced that the sixth book in the blockbuster Harry Potter series will hit bookstores on July 16.
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Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is the favourite to win the Whitbread Prize with her novel Small Island.
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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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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel, The Line of Beauty. The prestigious award is for the best novel of the last 12 months by an author from a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
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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.