Alan Hollinghurst

In 2011, his novel The Stranger's Child was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2011.

He won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.

In 2004, he won the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.

As a younger writer, before he received The Booker Prize, Hollinghurst discussed his early life and literary influences at length during a rare interview at his London home. This interview was published in 1997-98 in The James White Review.

In 1994, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Folding Star.

In 1989, Hollinghurst won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Swimming Pool Library.

Hollinghurst studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, E. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers. While at Oxford he shared a house with future poet laureate Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, a year before Motion.

In 1974, Hollinghurst was awarded the Newdigate Prize.

In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen College, and then at Somerville and at Corpus Christi. 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.

Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.