Dubliner Enright wins Booker literary prize
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Dubliner Anne Enright won the Man Booker  Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, on  Tuesday for her bleak Irish family saga "The Gathering."
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is named the winner of the Orange Prize for fiction.
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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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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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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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Sarah Waters has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel &quot;The Night Watch&quot; after previous front-runner David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist for the award.
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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.
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Five of the six Man Booker Prize nominees, left to right, Gerard Woodward, Colm Toibin, Achmat Dangor, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Hall, pose in London, hours before the winner is announced Tuesday Oct. 19, 2004.
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Poet George Szirtes wins the Â£10,000 TS Eliot Prize for his collection of new poetry, Reel.
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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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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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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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AN annual award was launched yesterday to encou
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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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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner of the Man Booker Prize last fall, 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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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.