Alan Hollinghurst
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born
May 26, 1954
place of birth
Stroud, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London. In 1997, he went on an Asia book tour in Singapore.
In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995.
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 3.46 — 1,431 ratings — published 2004 17 editions |
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The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 3.70 — 427 ratings — published 1988 12 editions |
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The Folding Star: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 3.65 — 164 ratings — published 1996 8 editions |
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The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 3.08 — 126 ratings — published 1998 4 editions |
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Confidential Chats with Boys by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1982 |
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Poems by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1988 |
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Folding Star Poster by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings |
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Die Verzauberten by Alan Hollinghurst avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2001 |
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"...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for."
— Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty: A Novel)
— Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty: A Novel)
"And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of."
— Alan Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library)
— Alan Hollinghurst (The Swimming-Pool Library)
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