Alan Hollinghurst

	Birth Place	Stroud , Gloucestershire , UK
	Occupation	Novelist , Poet
	Nationality	British
	Period	1975 - present
	Debut Works	''Isherwood is at Santa Monica'' (poetry)<br />'' The Swimming Pool Library '' (novel)
	Magnum Opus	The Line Of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954 ) is a British Novelist , and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for '' The Line Of Beauty ''.

BIOGRAPHY

He was born on May 26 , 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire , the only child of a bank manager.

He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford . While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion , and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry.

In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen , and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College . In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London .

In 1981 he joined the Times Literary Supplement and from 1982 to 1995 he was deputy editor.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3758156.stm

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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)

Novels

Translations

As Editor

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.

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	CATEGORIES ABOUT ALAN HOLLINGHURST

	1954 births

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	booker prize winners

	english novelists

	english poets

	gay writers

	living people

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	stonewall book award winners

	people from stroud

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