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Alan Hollinghurst

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English writer, translator and poet

United KingdomWritersBorn 1954 · age 72
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Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.

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2024Knight Bachelor
2011Bill Whitehead Award
2004James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2004Booker Prize
1995Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1991E. M. Forster Award
1989Stonewall Book Award
1989Somerset Maugham Award
1979Eric Gregory Award
1974Newdigate Prize
Lambda Literary Award

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Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.

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United Kingdom
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Born 1954 · age 72
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