Alan James HollinghurstFRSL (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. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988.[1]
Hollinghurst discussed his early life and literary influences at length in a rare interview at home in London, published in The James White Review in 1997–98.[10]
Writing
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Isherwood is at Santa Monica (Sycamore Broadsheet 22: two poems, hand-printed on a single folded sheet), Oxford: Sycamore Press 1975[13]
Poetry Introduction 4 (ten poems: "Over the Wall", "Nightfall", "Survey", "Christmas Day at Home", "The Drowned Field", "Alonso", "Isherwood is at Santa Monica", "Ben Dancing at Wayland's Smithy", "Convalescence in Lower Largo", "The Well"), Faber and Faber, 1978 ISBN978-0571111435
Confidential Chats with Boys, Oxford: Sycamore Press 1982 (based on the book Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard, MD., 1911, Sydney, Australia)[14]
"Mud" (London Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 19, 21 October 1982)[15]
Short stories
A Thieving Boy (Firebird 2: Writing Today, Penguin, 1983)[16]
Sharps and Flats (Granta 43, 1993), was incorporated into Hollinghurst's second novel, The Folding Star[17]
Hollinghurst is gay[20][2][11] and lives in London.[21] Although he now lives with his partner Paul Mendez,[22] Hollinghurst previously said: "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."[23]
^Dodson, Ed. "Sexuality, race and empire in Alan Hollinghurst's 'A Thieving Boy' (1983)". Through a 'contrapuntal' analysis of his 1983 Egyptian short story 'A Thieving Boy', the article complicates dominant 'queer' interpretations which overlook the postimperial politics—the aesthetic negotiation of Britain after empire—at stake in his representations of race and nation.[permanent dead link]
^Hahn, Lorraine (11 May 2005). "Alan Hollinghurst TalkAsia Interview Transcript". TalkAsia. CNN. Retrieved 28 January 2009. I only chafe at the 'gay writer' tag if it's thought to describe everything that's interesting about my books.