Nigeria author wins Booker honour
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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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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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie landed the Orange Prize on Wednesday, one of the literary world's top awards given to women writers, for a novel set in the 1960s Biafran civil war.
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Man Booker International Prize winner Chinua Achebe pioneered Nigeria's literary contributions.
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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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Authors including Booker winners DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood make the lmpac Award longlist.
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One of the world&#39;s most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize for fiction, has been won by British writer Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;.
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Literary fans get the chance to air their views on who should win the first Man Booker International Prize.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership on Monday.
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The Mo Ibrahim Prize - worth $5m - will be awarded in London to a former African head of state.
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Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.
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World-famous author Chinua Achebe rejects a national award, criticising the "dangerous" state of affairs in Nigeria.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 with his novel &quot;The Line of Beauty.&quot;. &quot;The Line of Beauty&quot; is a colorful tale about an Oxford University graduate living in the London
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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British author David Mitchell was  installed as 5-1 favorite on Monday to win the Booker prize,  one of the literary world's most prestigious awards.
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Six books are on the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, selected from among 22 nominees.