Occupation Writer, translator Movies The Line of Beauty Role Novelist | Name Alan Hollinghurst Period 1975– | |
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Born 26 May 1954 (age 69)
Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain ( 1954-05-26 ) Genre Novel, poem, short story Notable works The Swimming Pool Library,
The Folding Star
The Spell,
The Line of Beauty,
The Stranger's Child Notable awards Newdigate Prize
1974
Stonewall Book Award
1989
Somerset Maugham Award
1989
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1994
Booker Prize
2004 Education University of Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford Awards Man Booker Prize, Stonewall Book Award Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Books The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Swimming Pool Libr, The Folding Star, The Spell Similar People Henry James, Julie Andrzejewski, Saul Dibb, A E Housman, Andrew Davies | ||
Alan hollinghurst beautiful lines and strangers children
Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
Contents
- Alan hollinghurst beautiful lines and strangers children
- Alan hollinghurst part 2 nov 1 2011 appel salon
- Biography
- Poetry
- Novels
- Short stories
- Translations
- As editor
- Awards and honours
- References
Alan hollinghurst part 2 nov 1 2011 appel salon
Biography
Of English descent, Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 May 1954, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth. He attended Canford School in Dorset.
Hollinghurst studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving the BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, E. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers. While at Oxford he shared a house with future poet laureate Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, a year before Motion.
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen College, and then at Somerville and at Corpus Christi. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London, and in 1982 he joined The Times Literary Supplement, where he was the paper's deputy editor from 1985 to 1990.
Hollinghurst is openly gay. He lives in London.
He won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.
He lives alone, explaining: "I'm not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. I could when I started [writing]. I suppose I had more energy then. Now I have to isolate myself for long periods."
Poetry
Novels
Short stories
Translations
As editor
Awards and honours
In 1974, Hollinghurst was awarded the Newdigate Prize.
In 1989, Hollinghurst won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Swimming Pool Library.
In 1994, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Folding Star.
In 2004, he won the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
In 2011, his novel The Stranger's Child was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2011.