Indian writers miss Â£50000 Man Booker Prize shortlist
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The judges for this year&#39;s Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize declared their shortlist of six novels on Tuesday and promptly decried some entries for the most valued literary prize in the world as &quot;drivel&quot; and &quot;rubbish&quot;.
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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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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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New Zealand names were absent from the list of five nominees for the International Rugby Board&#39;s player of the year announced on Wednesday.
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Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, was awarded the 60,000 pound Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
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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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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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Former political prisoner Jack Mapanje is among the nominees for the Â£10,000 Forward Prize for Poetry.
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Peter Hain failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds for his deputy leader bid
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Author secures place on shortlist with On Chesil Beach.
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Chimamanda Adichie says she did not expect to win the Orange Prize for Fiction, despite being favourite.
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London, Dec. 26 (PTI): Expressing his outrage at the British Government&#39;s failure to criticise the violent Sikh protests that led to the closure of a play in Birmingham, noted writer Salman Rushdie, has said
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: The latest book of the year shortlist can't disguise the prejudices that threaten literature
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Miss India Puja Gupta failed to make it to the top five at the competition.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel, The Line of Beauty. The prestigious award is for the best novel of the last 12 months by an author from a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
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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.