Novelist Alan Hollghurst is award this year's prtig Man Booker Prize. Hollghurst won for The Le of Bety, the first gay-themed novel to w the Brish lerary honor s 36-year history. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and Rebec Jon of the BBC.
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- GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
- GAY-THEMED NOVEL WS BOOKER PRIZE
- TALE OF GAY LIFE BRA WS A TOP LERARY PRIZE
GAY THOR WS THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR ’EMOTIVE’ BUT NOVEL ABOUT GROWG UP QUEER 1980S GLASGOW
Gay thor Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his tobgraphil but novel Shuggie Ba, tellg the story of a queer teenager. * gay novel booker prize *
Gay thor Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his tobgraphil but novel Shuggie Ba, which tells the story of a queer youth livg wh his alholic mother 1980s Glasgow. Gay thor Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for his ’emotive, nuanced’ but novel Shuggie Ba. The thor grew up Glasgow when there was ‘a real stigma’ to beg gay.
Speakg to the New Yorker January, Stuart said there was “a real stigma” to beg gay the hog scheme where he grew up Glasgow. On growg up gay, he said: “When I was 17, I had all the puzzle piec and no way of ftg them all together.
GAY-THEMED NOVEL WS BOOKER PRIZE
The media receptn of Alan Hollghurst’s w did The Le of Bety a great disservice. There was far more to the book than simply beg ‘the first gay novel’ to w the prize. * gay novel booker prize *
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TALE OF GAY LIFE BRA WS A TOP LERARY PRIZE
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It’s noteworthy that for the past four years The Booker Prize has been award to novels whose central characters are lbian, gay, bisexual or non-bary. Sometim the characters’ sexuali are tegral to the plot, as they face both direct and stutnalised homophobia.
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Could there be a more allurg metaphor for the prer relatnship between polics and homosexualy 1980s Bra than the jaw-droppg party scene The Le of Bety where Nick, the story’s gay protagonist who is high on ke, v Margaret Thatcher to dance and she accepts? Hollghurst’s 2004 Booker wner ftly explor the plexi of Nick’s ambn, romanc and gay life.
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The characters challenge stereotypil notns of gay men and emerge as highly pellg dividuals who have alternative ways of habg their sexualy.
Shug has a buddg awarens of his homosexualy which he feels pelled to reprs while stgglg to re for his alholic mother. Amidst the tragedy of the AIDS epimic, the rultg illns and ath of many gay men forced their fai to face facts about their liv which they’d been tactfully avoidg or nyg. There was far more to the book than simply beg ‘the first gay novel’ to w the prize.
Prev Booker Prize wners such as William Goldg’s R of Passage and Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road had clud sympathetic portrayals of homosexualy, but Hollghurst’s stylish tale put gayns ont and centre.