A gay novel, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, won Britain’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Oct. 19.
The book chronicles the sexual and drug-filled adventures of gay Nick Guest, an Oxford graduate living with the family of a Conservative parliamentarian in London during the Thatcher era.
Hollinghurst, 50, pocketed £50,000 (US$90,000)for his win.