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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 the 2004 Booker Prize.

Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst at the 2011 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1954-05-26) 26 May 1954 (age 68) 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
Notable awards	Newdigate Prize 1974 Stonewall Book Award 1989 Somerset Maugham Award 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1994 Booker Prize 2004

Early life and education

Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, only child of bank manager James Hollinghurst, who served in the RAF in the Second World War,[1] and his wife, Elizabeth.[2][3] He attended Dorset's Canford School.[4]

He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on works by three gay writers: Firbank, Forster and Hartley.[5][6] He house-shared with future poet laureate Andrew Motion at Oxford, and was awarded poetry's Newdigate Prize, a year before Motion. In the late 1970s he lectured at Magdalen, then at Somerville and Corpus Christi. In 1981 he lectured at UCL, and in 1982 joined The Times Literary Supplement, serving as deputy editor: 1985–90.[7][8]

Writing

Hollinghurst discussed his early life and literary influences at length in a rare interview at home in London, published in The James White Review in 1997–98.[9]

He won the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.[10] His next novel, The Stranger's Child, made the 2011 Booker Prize longlist.[11]

List of works

Poetry

• Isherwood is at Santa Monica (Sycamore Broadsheet 22: two poems, hand-printed on a single folded sheet), Oxford: Sycamore Press 1975[12]
• Poetry Introduction 4 (ten poems: "Over the Wall", "Nightfall", "Survey", "Christmas Day at Home", "The Drowned Field", "Alonso", "Isherwood is at Santa Monica", "Ben Dancing at Wayland's Smithy", "Convalescence in Lower Largo", "The Well"), Faber and Faber, 1978 ISBN 978-0571111435
• Confidential Chats with Boys, Oxford: Sycamore Press 1982 (based on the book Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard, MD., 1911, Sydney, Australia)[13]
• "Mud" (London Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 19, 21 October 1982)[14]

Short stories

• A Thieving Boy (Firebird 2: Writing Today, Penguin, 1983)[15]
• Sharps and Flats (Granta 43, 1993), was incorporated into Hollinghurst's second novel, The Folding Star[16]
• Highlights (Granta 100, 2007)[17]

Novels

• The Swimming-Pool Library, 1988 ISBN 978-0679722564
• The Folding Star, 1994 ISBN 978-0099476917
• The Spell, 1998 ISBN 978-0099276944
• The Line of Beauty, 2004 ISBN 978-0330483216
• The Stranger's Child, 2011 ISBN 978-0330483278
• The Sparsholt Affair, 2017 ISBN 978-1447208228

Translations

• Bajazet by Jean Racine, Chatto & Windus, 1991 ISBN 978-0701138530
• Bérénice and Bajazet by Jean Racine, Faber and Faber, 2012 ISBN 978-0571299089

As editor

• New Writing 4 (with A. S. Byatt), 1995 ISBN 978-0099532316
• A. E. Housman: poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst, Faber and Faber, 2001 ISBN 978-0571207053

Foreword

• Three Novels by Ronald Firbank, 2000 ISBN 978-0141182193

Awards and honours

• 1974: Newdigate Prize
• 1989: Somerset Maugham Award, for The Swimming Pool Library
• 1994: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for The Folding Star
• 2004: Booker Prize, for The Line of Beauty[10]
• 2011: Booker Prize, longlist for The Stranger's Child[11]
• 2011: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle

Personal life

Hollinghurst is gay[18][1][10] and lives in London.[19] Although he now lives with his partner Paul Mendez,[20] Hollinghurst previously said: "I'm not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. I could when I started [writing]. I suppose I had more energy then. Now I have to isolate myself for long periods."[21]

References

External links

• An Interview at the Oxonian Review
• Alan Hollinghurst at British Council: Literature includes a "Critical Perspective" section
• Alan Hollinghurst at The New York Review of Books
• Alan Hollinghust Profile in The Guardian
• 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
• Peter Terzian (Winter 2011). "Alan Hollinghurst, The Art of Fiction No. 214". The Paris Review. Winter 2011 (199).

На других языках

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- [en] Alan Hollinghurst

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[es] Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst (26 de mayo de 1954, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Reino Unido) es un escritor y crítico literario británico. Estudió en Oxford y después fue profesor en el Magdalen College de dicha universidad. De 1982 a 1995 fue editor de The Times Literary Supplement.[1]

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[fr] Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst, né le 26 mai 1954 à Stroud dans le Gloucestershire, est un poète, romancier, nouvelliste et traducteur britannique.

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[ru] Холлингхёрст, Алан

А́лан Джеймс Хо́ллингхёрст (англ. Alan James Hollinghurst; род. 26 мая 1954 (1954-05-26)) — современный британский писатель, переводчик и литературный критик. Лауреат множества литературных наград, в том числе премии Сомерсета Моэма (1989), премии Джеймса Тейта Блэка (1994), Букеровской премии (2004). Член Королевского литературного общества.

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