Born in Stroud, England, Alan Hollinghurst is a novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.
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 in 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. The Sparsholt Affair was published in 2017. His forthcoming novel, Our Evenings, will be published in October 2024.
Winner The Booker Prize 2004
