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Alan Hollinghurst


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Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. He was on the staff of the Times Literary Supplement from 1982 to 1995.
 

Awards: Nibbies (2011), Booker (2004), James Tait Black (1994), SoA (1989)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
New and upcoming books
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Our Evenings
 
Novels
   The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
   The Folding Star (1994)
   The Spell (1998)
   The Line of Beauty (2004)
   The Stranger's Child (2011)
   The Sparsholt Affair (2017)
   Our Evenings (2024)
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Collections
   Confidential Chats with Boys (1982)
   Poems (poems) (1988)
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Anthologies edited
   New Writing 4 (1995) (with A S Byatt)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Alan Hollinghurst
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Flesh and the Word (1992)
An Anthology of Erotic Writing
edited by
John D Preston

Awards
2011 British Book Award Author of the Year
2004 Booker Prize : The Line of Beauty
1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : The Folding Star
1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
1989 Somerset Maugham Award : The Swimming-Pool Library

Award nominations
2012 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Stranger's Child
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Stranger's Child
2011 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Stranger's Child
2004 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : The Line of Beauty
1994 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Folding Star


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