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
Alan Hollinghurst
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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 Booker Prize 1994. 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.
The Line of Beauty
Winner of The Booker Prize 2004
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- Picador
Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly-less-innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s
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Alan Hollinghurst’s 1994 novel is an enigmatic tale of obsession, mystery, lust and loss
Alan Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic
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