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Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize.
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).
Jun 3, 2024 · Alan Hollinghurst interview: ‘Winning changed my life and my prospects at once’. To mark the 20th anniversary, the author reflects on the transformative impact of his Booker triumph with The Line of Beauty – a novel that propelled LGBTQIA+ narratives into the literary mainstream. Published June 3, 2024.
Oct 21, 2014 · Alan Hollinghurst is a master stylist whose critically-acclaimed novels have transformed the literary landscape. Among other things they trace the social history of homosexuality from the...
Alan Hollinghurst is among Britain’s most highly-rated literary novelists, whose best-known book The Line of Beauty (2004), winner of that year’s Man Booker Prize, is a tour-de-force envisioning of the Thatcher Years as an era of doomed romance.
The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Man Booker Prize -winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst . Plot. The novel is set in Britain in three parts, taking place in 1983, 1986 and 1987. The story surrounds the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest.
Jun 3, 2024 · Why do you think Alan Hollinghurst decided to document Nick’s journey across these three particular points in time? Hollinghurst centres The Line of Beauty around gay experiences, highlighting the AIDS epidemic and the associated stigma.
