Gay Novel Wins British Literary Prize
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&quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s lavish novel about a young gay man negotiating the confusions, delights and horrors of life in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980&#39;s
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Actor Hugh Grant joins Sir Trevor McDonald to choose the winner of the Â£25,000 Whitbread Book of the Year.
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THE most extraordinary scene in this year&#39;s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty has a gay man high on cocaine, dancing with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Scottish author and stand up comic AL Kennedy wins the Â£25,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her novel Day.
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LONDON -- British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, yesterday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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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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&quot;Cloud Atlas&quot; by the British-born, Ireland-based author David Mitchell was the early favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize, a day after the shortlist of six novels was announced.
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Novelists William Boyd, Neil Griffiths, Mark Haddon and David Mitchell are nominated for the Costa Book Awards.
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A novel set in 19th century Paraguay, a work of history about an early civil rights struggle and a children's story about a boy's religious faith were among the winners Wednesday night at the National Book Awards.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s The Line of Beauty has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the first time the prestigious award has been given to a book dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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Le Cafe de Flore, the famous Paris hangout once frequented by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernest Hemingway, has awarded its annual literary prize to a gay US novelist for his story about a homosexual tryst in Romania.
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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.