Gay Novel of Thatcher Years Wins Literary Prize
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the  Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary  awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in  Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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No Country For Old Men and Juno win the main prizes at the Writers Guild of America awards.
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The Falklands victory 25 years ago shows "fortune favours the brave" in the fight against evil, Baroness Thatcher says.
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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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A man discriminated against because of his sexual orientation is awarded almost Â£120,000 by a tribunal.
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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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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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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Conservative leader David Cameron  praises former PM Lady Thatcher as a "towering figure" at an awards ceremony.
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Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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Hungarian novelist Peter Esterhazy wins the prestigious peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is named the winner of the Orange Prize for fiction.
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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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Author Alan Hollinghurst was named Tuesday the winner of Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 for his novel, &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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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;.