Booker prize shortlist announced
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Sarah Waters has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel &quot;The Night Watch&quot; after previous front-runner David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist for the award.
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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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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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LONDON -- The short list for the 2004 Booker Prize was announced yesterday, but two Canadian authors who had been in the running failed to make the latest cut.
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Actress Catherine Zeta Jones supports a literary prize in memory of poet Dylan Thomas. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" has won the Man Booker Prize. It's the first time the award has been given to a novel dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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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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Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock 'n' roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning. All were among nominees announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.
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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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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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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.
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Authors Simon Sebag Montefiore and AL Kennedy are among the five nominees for the Costa Book of the Year.
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Five hopefuls are waiting to hear who will win one of Africa's leading literary awards - the Caine prize.
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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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Plans for a new national book award were announced Wednesday, with winners to be chosen by the general public voting online and in bookstores.
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British author Sarah Waters was installed  as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize after judges left a string of
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Nominations for this year's Bafta film awards are to be announced in London on Monday.