Alan Hollinghurst
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| Alan Hollinghurst | |
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| Born | 26 May 1954 Stroud, Gloucestershire, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
| Writing period | 1975– |
| Notable work(s) | The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
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[edit] Biography
He was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Kenneth Holinghurst (a bank manager) and his wife Lilian. He went to Canford School in Dorset.
He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London. In 1997, he went on an Asia book tour in Singapore.
In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995.[1]
Hollinghurst is gay.[2][3][4] He lives in London.[5]
[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
[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 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty in 2004.
[edit] References
- ^ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hollinghurst's rise to Booker glory
- ^ 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. 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.
[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
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