Gay Novel Wins Booker Prize
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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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The Mercury Music Prize, the record industry&#39;s equivalent of the literary world&#39;s Booker prize, was won last night by Franz Ferdinand, a four-piece rock band from Glasgow.
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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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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CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
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Hours after winning this year&#39;s Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel The Line of Beauty was being reprinted in anticipation of an extra 10,000 sales this week.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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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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Irish author Anne Enright's "bleak" novel The Gathering is the surprise winner of the prestigious  Booker Prize.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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An academic's study of human genetic mutation has been named winner of the Guardian First Book Award.
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The judging panel for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction includes authors, a poet and an actress.
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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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A novel set in 19th century Paraguay wins the $10,000 fiction prize at the US National Book Awards.
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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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Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are among the authors who are shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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For the first time in the 36-year history of the Booker prize, the award has gone to a book with a strong gay theme, The Line of Beauty.