Queer Places:
Canford School, Canford Magna, Wimborne BH21 3AD, Regno Unito
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
University College London, Gower St, Kings Cross, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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.
Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War,[1] and his wife, Elizabeth.[2][3] He attended Canford School in Dorset.[4]
HHollinghurst 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.[5][6] 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 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.[7][8]
Hollinghurst is openly gay.[9][10][11] He lives in London.[12]
HHe won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.[11] His next novel, The Stranger's Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.[13]
He lives alone, explaining: "I'm not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. I could when I started [writing]. I suppose I had more energy then. Now I have to isolate myself for long periods."[14]
My published books:
