Novels by Ronald Firbank, 2000 Awards and honours 1974: Newdigate Prize 1989: Somerset Maugham Award, for The Swimming Pool Library 1994: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for The Folding Star 2004: Booker Prize, for The Line of Beauty 2011: Booker Prize, longlist for The Stranger's Child 2011: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle Personal life Hollinghurst is gay and lives in London. Although he now lives with his partner Paul Mendez, 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." References External links An Interview at the Oxonian Review includes a "Critical Perspective" section Alan Hollinghurst at The New York Review of Books Alan Hollinghust Profile in The Guardian 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show 1954 births Living people Academics of University College London Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Booker Prize winners English gay writers English LGBT novelists English LGBT poets English male non-fiction writers English male novelists English male poets English male short story writers English translators Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners People educated at Canford School People from Stroud Stonewall Book Award winners 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century British translators 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English novelists 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British short story writers 21st-century British translators 21st-century English male writers 21st-century LGBT people University of Houston faculty