Gay fiction defeats hot favourite for Booker Prize
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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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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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Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker and Colm Toibin are among 22 authors to make the Booker prize long list.
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Sean O'Brien is announced as the winner of the TS Eliot prize for his poetry collection The Drowned Book.
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By NO BYLINE  TALKS by playwright Alan Bennett and journalists Andrew Marr and Jeremy Paxman at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival have sold out in record time.
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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 full of explicit gay sex seduced the judges of the 2004 Man Booker Prize into picking its author for the Â£50,000 award. It was second time lucky for Alan Hollinghurst
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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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British triumphs but no award ceremony, no red carpet and no acceptance speeches amid writers' strike
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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An openly gay candidate lost his bid on Saturday to become mayor of Dallas in a race that attracted wide attention because of his sexual orientation.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 with his novel &quot;The Line of Beauty.&quot;. &quot;The Line of Beauty&quot; is a colorful tale about an Oxford University graduate living in the London
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s explicitly gay novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;, a satire on Britain under Margaret Thatcher, has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, the prestigious international literary award.
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The decision by the European Parliament&#39;s Civil Liberties Committee to reject the nomination of Rocco Buttiglione as European Commissioner for Justice and Security over his comments on homosexuality and marriage is very unfortunate.
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Daniel Craig was honored but Helen Mirren was denied Sunday at the 34th annual Evening Standard British Film Awards.Comment
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Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are among the authors who are shortlisted for the Booker Prize.