(1954-05-26) 26 May 1954 (age 70) 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
Notable awards
Newdigate Prize 1974 Stonewall Book Award 1989 Somerset Maugham Award 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1994 Booker Prize 2004
Alan James HollinghurstFRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988.[1]
^Kirchick, James (6 May 2018). "How Alan Hollinghurst Helped Make 'Gay Literature' Mainstream". The Daily Beast.
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...
The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by AlanHollinghurst. The novel is set in Britain in three parts, taking place in 1983, 1986...
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The Sparsholt Affair is the sixth novel written by British author AlanHollinghurst. The novel explores the changing attitudes towards homosexuality in...
The Folding Star is a 1994 novel by AlanHollinghurst. The novel is the story of a gay English man, Edward Manners, who, disaffected with life, moves...
Nicola Barker Andre Brink Michael Frayn Damon Galgut Nadine Gordimer AlanHollinghurst James Kelman Doris Lessing Deborah Levy Penelope Lively Jon McGregor...
(Smallville), a television episode The Spell (novel), a 1998 novel by AlanHollinghurst Spells (anthology), a 1985 anthology of fantasy and science fiction...
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), at least one Man Booker Prize (AlanHollinghurst, 2004) and countless other honors. Yaddo is included in the Union...
is set in the nearby Slad valley, and Booker Prize-winning author AlanHollinghurst. Poets Dennis Gould, Jeff Cloves, Philip Rush, Ted Milton, Michael...
deserved to be loved." In 2009, a panel including Sir Ian McKellen and AlanHollinghurst chose Diana's portrait to be shown in the Gay Icons exhibition at...
Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Winner 1989 AlanHollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library Winner Sarah Schulman After Delores Winner...
David MacDonald, AlanHollinghurst (Berenice, Bajazet), by RADA director Edward Kemp (Andromache), Neil Bartlett, and poet Geoffrey Alan Argent, who earned...
Symonds, James Laver, Donald Hall, James Fenton, P. M. Hubbard, and AlanHollinghurst. The parallel award given at the University of Cambridge is the Chancellor's...
Devine, Irish Republican hunger strike participant (d. 1981) 1954 – AlanHollinghurst, English novelist, poet, short story writer, and translator 1954 –...
Evangelical bishop] was from his student years an unwavering atheist." AlanHollinghurst, "The Victory of Penelope Fitzgerald" (a review of Hermione Lee, Penelope...
near bridges... "Spring Wedding" (New Writing 4, ed. A. S. Byatt and AlanHollinghurst, Vintage, 1991) - Ulli has spent the day in bed at her boyfriend Dorma's...
many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include AlanHollinghurst, Michael Cunningham, Colm Tóibín, John Boyne, and Andrew Sean Greer...
(author of Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir), Dorothy Allison (Trash), AlanHollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library), and Edmund White (The Beautiful Room...
passionate, as shot through with melancholy as anything by Edmund White or AlanHollinghurst." The reviewer predicted that Swimming In the Dark was "bound to become...
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