Booker Prize shortlist unveiled
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Welsh novelist Sarah Waters is one of six writers shortlisted for this year's Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize.
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CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
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British author Sarah Waters was  installed on Thursday as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize  after judges left a string of literary heavyweights off the  shortlist for one of the world's top book awards.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, was among the finalists announced Tuesday for the 11th annual Kiriyama Prize for works "that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of South Asia."
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A NOVEL full of explicit gay sex seduced the judges of the 2004 Man Booker Prize into picking its author for the Â£50,000 award. It was second time lucky for Alan Hollinghurst
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British author Sarah Waters was installed  as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize after judges left a string of
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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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&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.
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Hours after winning this year&#39;s Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel The Line of Beauty was being reprinted in anticipation of an extra 10,000 sales this week.
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Rebecca Gilman, Heather Raffo, Joanna McClelland Glass, Patricia Wettig and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti are among the twelve playwrights who are finalists for the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst has snared the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty,&#39; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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A small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the shelves this month.
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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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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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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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London, Sept. 22 (PTI): No big names found their way in the Booker shortlist announced last night, with the judges for the 50,000 pounds prize damning some entries as &quot;rubbish&quot; and &quot;drivel&quot;.