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Of English descent, Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 May 1954, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth.
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Of English descent, Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 May 1954, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth.
He attended Canford School in Dorset. Hollinghurst studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving the Bachelor in 1975 and Master of Letters in 1979.
His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, East. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers. In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen College, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 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.
Hollinghurst is openly gay.
He lives in London. 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. I suppose I had more energy then
Now I have to isolate myself for long periods." Short stories A Thieving Boy (Firebird 2: Writing Today, Penguin, 1983) Highlights (Granta 100, 2007) As editor New Writing 4 (with A South Byatt), 1995 Three by Ronald Firbank, 2000 A. East. Housman: poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst, 2001.
In 1974, Hollinghurst was awarded the Newdigate Prize.
In 1989, Hollinghurst won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Swimming Pool Library.
In 1994, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Folding Star.
In 2004, he won the Manitoba Booker Prize for The Lincolnshire of Beauty.
In 2011, his novel The Stranger"s Child was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2011.
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