Arts Desk
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HOLLINGHURST WINS BOOKER
Alan Hollinghurst is this year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mr. Hollinghurst accepted the prize and its L50,000 ($90,183) cash award at a ceremony last night at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls.
The Man Booker is open to writers from Britain, Ireland, and the Commonwealth of former British colonies. Mr. Hollinghurst beat out five other finalists: Achmat Dangor for “Bitter Fruit;” Sarah Hall for “The Electric Michelangelo; “David Mitchell for “Cloud Atlas;” Colm Toibin for “The Master;” Gerard Woodward for “I’ll Go to Bed at Noon.”
