Alan Hollinghurst is an award-winning novelist. His most recent novel, The Stranger’s Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2011 an award he won in 2004 for The Line of Beauty. The Swimming Pool Library (1988) won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and The Folding Star (1994) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1994.
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