- Alan Hollinghurst
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birthplace = Stroud,Gloucestershire ,England
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occupation =Novelist ,Poet
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period = 1975–
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notableworks =The Line of Beauty
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website =Alan Hollinghurst (born
26 May 1954 ) is an Englishnovel ist, and winner of the 2004Booker Prize for "The Line of Beauty ".Biography
He was born on
26 May 1954 inStroud, Gloucestershire , the only child of a bank manager.He read English at
Magdalen College, Oxford . While at Oxford he shared a house withAndrew Motion , and was awarded theNewdigate Prize for poetry.In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at
Somerville College andCorpus Christi College, Oxford . In 1981 he moved on to lecture atUniversity College London . In 1997, he went on anAsia book tour inSingapore .In 1981 he joined "
The Times Literary Supplement " and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3758156.stm BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hollinghurst's rise to Booker glory ] ]Bibliography
Poetry
* "Isherwood is at Santa Monica" (Sycamore Broadsheet 22: two poems, hand-printed on a single folded sheet), Oxford: Sycamore Press 1975
* "Confidential Chats with Boys", Oxford: Sycamore Press 1982 (based on the book "Confidential Chats With Boys" by William Lee Howard, MD., 1911, Sydney, Australia)Novels
* "
The Swimming Pool Library ", 1988
* "The Folding Star ", 1994
* "The Spell ", 1998
* "The Line of Beauty ", 2004Translations
* "Bazajet" by Racine, 1991
As Editor
* "New Writing 4" (with
A. S. Byatt ), 1995
* "Three Novels" byRonald Firbank , 2000
* "A. E. Housman : poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst", 2001Literary prizes
In 1989, he won the
Somerset Maugham Award for "The Swimming Pool Library ".In 1994, he won the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction with "The Folding Star ".He is perhaps best-known for winning the
Booker Prize for "The Line of Beauty " in 2004.References
External links
* includes a "Critical Perspective" section
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/10191 Hollinghurst author page and archive] from "The New York Review of Books "
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