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Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize. ==Biography== 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.〔(Andrew Anthony, "Alan Hollinghurst: The slow-motion novelist delivers," ''The Guardian'', 11 June 2011 ).〕 Hollinghurst studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving the BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on the works of Ronald Firbank, E. M. Forster and L. P. Hartley, three gay writers. While at Oxford he shared a house with future poet laureate Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, a year before Motion. 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 won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for ''The Line of Beauty''.〔 His next novel, ''The Stranger's Child'', was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1514 )〕 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." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Hollinghurst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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