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Alan Hollinghurst
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English writer, translator and poet
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Berenice and Bajazet
- Parisian Sketches
- Our Evenings
- Kind van een vreemde (Dutch Edition)
- De schoonheidslijn
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- M on the Bund — Self2024
- Queer as Art — Self2017
- Faulks on Fiction2011
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 45
- Total plays
- 351
Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His other books include The Spell, The Swimming Pool Library, and The Folding Star. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alan+Hollinghurst">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,826x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,157x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,247x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alan James Hollinghurst , ( 1954-05-26 ) 26 May 1954 (age 72) , 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 , David Cohen Prize , 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst (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.
Early life and education
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