Gay-themed novel a first for Booker Prize
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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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Comment is free: Julian Mitchell: When I grew up, to be homosexual seemed a life sentence to shame. A brave report 50 years ago paved the way for change.
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A London author wins a prize for her debut novel, which is set in Canada - a country she has never visited.
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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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International Booker judges offer support to author Salman Rushdie as they honour this year's winner.
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Recently catapulted from relative obscurity to the shortlist for this yearâs Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jonesâs âMister Pipâ is an improbably palatable visit to a pedagogueâs paradise.
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A man discriminated against because of his sexual orientation is awarded almost Â£120,000 by a tribunal.
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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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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel, The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London, won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award - the Booker Prize.
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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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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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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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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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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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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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"Mutants," a non-fiction work that casts a sympathetic eye on genetics and physical deformity, has won the Guardian's First Book award, the first science book to claim the prize.
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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.