Alan Hollinghurst
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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 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]
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Born | (1954-05-26) 26 May 1954 (age 69) Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Writer, translator |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford (BA, MLitt) |
Period | 1975ā |
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 |
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