Alan James Hollinghurst (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 the 2004 Booker Prize. Early life and education Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, only child of bank manager James Hollinghurst, who served in the RAF in the Second World War, and his wife, Elizabeth. He attended Dorset's Canford School. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on works by three gay writers: Firbank, Forster and Hartley. He house-shared with future poet laureate Andrew Motion at Oxford, and was awarded poetry's Newdigate Prize, a year before Motion. In the late 1970s he lectured at Magdalen, then at Somerville and Corpus Christi. In 1981 he lectured at UCL, and in 1982 joined The Times Literary Supplement, serving as deputy editor: 1985–90. Writing 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. He won the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, made the 2011 Booker Prize longlist. List of works Poetry Isherwood is at Santa Monica (Sycamore Broadsheet 22: two poems, hand-printed on a single folded sheet), Oxford: Sycamore Press 1975 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 Confidential Chats with Boys, Oxford: Sycamore Press 1982 (based on the book Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard, MD., 1911, Sydney, Australia) "Mud" (London Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 19, 21 October 1982) Short stories A Thieving Boy (Firebird 2: Writing Today, Penguin, 1983) Sharps and Flats (Granta 43, 1993), was incorporated into Hollinghurst's second novel, The Folding Star Highlights (Granta 100, 2007) Novels The Swimming-Pool Library, 1988 The Folding Star, 1994 The Spell, 1998 The Line of Beauty, 2004 The Stranger's Child, 2011 The Sparsholt Affair, 2017 Translations Bajazet by Jean Racine, Chatto & Windus, 1991 Bérénice and Bajazet by Jean Racine, Faber and Faber, 2012 As editor New Writing 4 (with A. S. Byatt), 1995 A. E. Housman: poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst, Faber and Faber, 2001 Foreword Three