Alan Hollinghurst
1954 – present · b. Stroud
United Kingdom
university teachernovelistshort story writergay fiction writerliterary critictranslatorpoetwriter
Biography
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
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Awards
- Knight Bachelor (2024)No list
- Q136747220 (2013)No list
- Bill Whitehead Award (2011)No list
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2004)No list
- Booker Prize (2004)No list
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1995)No list
- E. M. Forster Award (1991)No list
- Stonewall Book Award (1989)No list
Notable Works
- The Folding Star
- The Line of Beauty
- The Spell
- The Swimming-Pool Library
Education
- Canford School
- Magdalen College
