Gay novelist wins Booker Prize
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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;.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" has won the Man Booker Prize. It's the first time the award has been given to a novel dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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Novelist Alan Hollinghurst has been writing about gay British life for nearly 20 years, winning critical praise and an admiring, if niche, readership with a set of three finely crafted, often sexually graphic works.
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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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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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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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Writer Alan Hollinghurst wins the Â£50,000 Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s explicitly gay novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;, a satire on Britain under Margaret Thatcher, has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, the prestigious international literary award.