Alan Hollinghurst
English writer, translator and poet · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1954 · age 72
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 BachelorAward2011Bill Whitehead AwardAward2004Booker PrizeAwardJames Tait Black Memorial PrizeAward1995Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1991E. M. Forster AwardAward1989Somerset Maugham AwardAwardStonewall Book AwardAward1979Eric Gregory AwardAward1974Newdigate PrizeAward1954Born26 May 1954
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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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Born 1954 · age 72
