Alan Hollinghurst | |
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 Alan Hollinghurst at the 2011 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 26 May 1954 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer, translator |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford (BA, MLitt) |
| Period | 1975– |
| Genre | Novel, poem, short story |
| Notable works | The Swimming-Pool Library The Folding Star The Spell The Line of Beauty The Stranger's Child The Sparsholt Affair Our Evenings |
| Notable awards | Newdigate Prize 1974 Stonewall Book Award 1989 Somerset Maugham Award 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1994 Booker Prize 2004 |
Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) 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.[1]
- ^ Kirchick, James (6 May 2018). "How Alan Hollinghurst Helped Make 'Gay Literature' Mainstream". The Daily Beast.