Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst, born in 1954 in Stroud, England, is considered one of the most important British authors of the present day. His debut novel »The Swimming-Pool Library« (1988) was credited with bringing gay lives and history into the British literary mainstream for the first time; it won the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Stonewall Book Award.

This was followed by the novels »The Folding Star« and »The Spell«. Hollinghurst gained international acclaim with his novel »The Line of Beauty«, a masterfully composed portrait of London’s upper class during the heyday of Mrs Thatcher and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Upon its original publication in 2004, the novel was praised for its Jamesian qualities and it won the prestigious Booker Prize that same year.

It was followed by »The Stranger’s Child«, »The Sparsholt Affair«, and most recently »Our Evenings« (2024), in which the author returns to his central themes: social mobility through education, sexual and racial differences, and the search for love and beauty. According to The Sunday Times, it is »the best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too.«
Alan Hollinghurst lives in London and was for many years an editor at The Times Literary Supplement.

Last Update: 2025

Die Schwimmbad-Bibliothek
Albino
Berlin, 2015 [Original: 1988]
[tr: Eike Schönfeld]

Des Fremden Kind
Blessing
München, 2012 [Original: 2011]
[tr: Thomas Stegers]

Der Hirtenstern
Albino
Berlin, 2022 [Original: 1994]
[tr: Joachim Bartholomae]

Die Schönheitslinie
Albino
Berlin, 2025 [Original: 2004]
[tr: Thomas Stegers]

Unsere Abende
Albino
Berlin, 2025 [Original: 2024]
[tr: Joachim Bartholomae]