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Also known as Alan James Hollinghurst

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

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

  • M on the Bund — Self2024
  • Queer as Art — Self2017
  • Faulks on Fiction2011

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
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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>

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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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