Alan Hollinghurst

Sir Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator, best known for The Line of Beauty, which won the Booker Prize in 2004. He also won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1989 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1994. Across seven novels since 1988, including The Spell, which follows gay men of different generations, he has helped gay-themed fiction move into the literary mainstream.