Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later taught there as well as at University College London. He is the deputy editor of the literary review "The Times Literary Supplement (TLS)." His novel "The Swimming-Pool Library" (1988) was one of the most notable books of the 1980s. In 1993, he was selected as one of the best young novelists. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel "The Line of Beauty." Regarding this work, the author Petros Tatsopoulos wrote in the newspaper "Ta Nea" on May 28, 2005: "How would Henry James write if he were writing today? Although the question is naive, it has an answer: in the manner of Alan Hollinghurst. See 'The Line of Beauty' as an interesting aesthetic experiment. Discover what happens when a contemporary narrator maintains the style of Henry James but detaches him from Victorian mores and sends him on a mission to the wonderful world of the gay community. [...]" He has translated Racine's "Bajazet" into English.