Tale of Gay Life in Britain Wins a Top Literary 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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During a New York City reading with delighted fans, the author explains that Dumbledore is gay
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One of the most successful business leaders in the North-East has won a prize in the Quoted Company Awards in London.
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The novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; written by Alan Hollinghurst, has won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award. The book tells a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London,.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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Comment is free: Julian Mitchell: When I grew up, to be homosexual seemed a life sentence to shame. A brave report 50 years ago paved the way for change.
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Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat became the first winner of The Story Prize, a new annual book award honoring short story collections.
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A "luminous" debut novel about a young girl sent to live in rural Wales is up against a biography of tragic Mary Queen of Scots in the competition for one of Britain's top literary awards.
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A man discriminated against because of his sexual orientation is awarded almost Â£120,000 by a tribunal.
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British Author David Mitchell was installed as runaway favorite on Thursday to capture the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's top literary awards, for his ambitious, multi-layered novel "Cloud Atlas."
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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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Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.
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Austria's Elfriede Jelinek won the  Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays  that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality  and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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Australian comic Brendon Burns was on Sunday named winner of Britain&#39;s top comedy award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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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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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.