Gay Novel Wins Booker Prize
Pink Press - 20 October 2004
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 "The Line of Beauty."
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 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 "The Line of Beauty." "It's very amazing to me that the long, solitary process of writing a novel should lead to a moment like this," the British writer said in accepting the prize. The novel, set in 1980s London, tells the story of Nick Guest, who takes a room in the home of a wealthy political family connected to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Guest has a passionate affair with a black council worker before falling in love with a cocaine-addicted millionaire. In one scene in the book Guest dances with Thatcher at a party while he is high on drugs. Chris Smith, the first openly gay cabinet minister in Britain, headed the selection committee. He called "The Line of Beauty" exciting and brilliantly written. "The search for love, sex and beauty is rarely this exquisitely done," he said. The Book Prize is open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth. It comes with a $90,000 check.
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