Author
Alan Hollinghurst
Birth Date
May 26, 1954
(71 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, and translator known for his elegant prose and incisive exploration of class, sexuality, and contemporary British society. He was born in Stroud and studied English at Oxford University, where he later became a lecturer and editor for literary publications.
Hollinghurst gained international recognition with novels such as The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Line of Beauty (2004), which won the Booker Prize, and The Stranger’s Child (2011). His work often traces shifting social landscapes in postwar Britain, with a particular focus on sexuality, art, and memory.
His writing is celebrated for its lyrical style, psychological depth, and historical richness. Hollinghurst is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British novelists.
Hollinghurst gained international recognition with novels such as The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Line of Beauty (2004), which won the Booker Prize, and The Stranger’s Child (2011). His work often traces shifting social landscapes in postwar Britain, with a particular focus on sexuality, art, and memory.
His writing is celebrated for its lyrical style, psychological depth, and historical richness. Hollinghurst is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British novelists.
Books
Our Evenings 2025
Spanning decades of social and political change in Britain, Our Evenings follows the life of Dave Win, a mixed-race actor navigating identity, ambition, and belonging in a shifting cultural landscape....
The Sparsholt Affair 2019
In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a...
The Stranger's Child 2012
In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s home outside London. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon...
The Folding Star 2008
Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city....
The Line of Beauty 2005
Set in 1980s London at the height of Thatcherism, The Line of Beauty follows Nick Guest, a young Oxford graduate who becomes entangled in the privileged world of the wealthy and well-connected....
The Spell 2000
The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger...
An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool...