Hollinghurst takes Booker Prize
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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses".
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Six authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including  favourite David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.
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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the  Orange Prize, a major literary award for fiction in English  written by women.
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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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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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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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An academic's study of human genetic mutation has been named winner of the Guardian First Book Award.
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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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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is won by journalist Iain Hollingshead for his first novel, Twenty Something.
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Every October the British publishing world celebrates the Man Booker Prize. For many, the main action is in Soho, where publishing houses take over exclusive social clubs.
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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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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.
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British director Mike Leigh&#39;s &amp;quotVera Drake&quot;, a movie portraying a back-street abortionist in 1950s London, won the top prize on Saturday for the best film at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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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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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.