Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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"The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's novel about a young gay man in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize.
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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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Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won the West African country's presidential election, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Monday.
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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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Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker and Colm Toibin are among 22 authors to make the Booker prize long list.
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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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The Nigerian film Ezra takes the top prize at the biennial African Film Festival, Fespaco, in Burkina Faso.
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Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Line of Beauty," a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, on Tuesday won Britain's most prestigious literary award.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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LONDON -- British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, yesterday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson beats Salman Rushdie to win the Impac prize with his novel Out Stealing Horses.
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Nigerian director Newton Aduaka  lifted the top prize at Africa's most prestigious film festival  for "Ezra," the tale of a child soldier who struggles to  readapt after Sierra Leone's civil war.