Alan Hollinghurst
| Alan Hollinghurst | |
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 Alan Hollinghurst at the 2011 Texas Book Festival. |
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| Born | 26 May 1954 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain |
| Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
| Period | 1975– |
| Notable work(s) | The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
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[edit] Biography
Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth.[citation needed] He attended Canford School in Dorset.
Hollinghurst read English at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1972 to 1979, graduating with a BA in 1975, and a MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, E. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers.[1][2] While at Oxford he shared a house with 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 College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 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.[3]
Hollinghurst is gay.[4][5][6] He lives in London.[7]
He won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.[8]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] 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)
[edit] Novels
- The Swimming Pool Library, 1988
- The Folding Star, 1994
- The Spell, 1998
- The Line of Beauty, 2004
- The Stranger's Child, 2011
[edit] Translations
- Bazajet by Jean Racine, 1991
[edit] As editor
- New Writing 4 (with A. S. Byatt), 1995
- Three Novels by Ronald Firbank, 2000
- A. E. Housman: poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst, 2001
[edit] Literary 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 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty in 2004.
His novel The Stranger's Child was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Article by Peter Rose
- ^ About.com
- ^ "Hollinghurst's rise to Booker glory". BBC News. 19 October 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3758156.stm. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
- ^ Hahn, Lorraine (May 11, 2005). "Alan Hollinghurst TalkAsia Interview Transcript". TalkAsia (CNN). http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/talkasia.hollinghurst.script/index.html. Retrieved 28 January 2009. "I only chafe at the 'gay writer' tag if it's thought to describe everything that's interesting about my books."
- ^ Moss, Stephen (October 21, 2004). "'I Don't Make Moral Judgments': Interview with Alan Hollinghurst, winner of the 2004 Booker prize.". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/oct/21/bookerprize2004.bookerprize. Retrieved 28 January 2009. "Much as Chris Smith, the chairman of the Booker judges, tries to gainsay the fact, Hollinghurst is a gay novelist. This is a gay novel."
- ^ "Alan Hollinghurst wins prestigious Booker Prize". The Advocate. October 21, 2004. http://personals.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid5213.asp. Retrieved 28 January 2009. "Out British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Booker Prize"
- ^ Tillyard, Stella (November 2005). "Interview: Alan Hollinghurst". Prospect Magazine. http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7113. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
- ^ a b "Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist announced". The Booker Prize Foundation. http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1514. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
[edit] External links
- Alan Hollinghurst at Contemporary Writers includes a "Critical Perspective" section
- Hollinghurst author page and archive from The New York Review of Books
- 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
- 1954 births
- Booker Prize winners
- English novelists
- English poets
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Gay writers
- LGBT people from England
- Living people
- Old Canfordians
- People from Stroud
- University of Houston faculty
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- LGBT writers from the United Kingdom
- Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford
- Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Academics of University College London
