About This Event
The author, whose work often traces the social history of homosexuality, published his debut novel The Swimming Pool Library in 1988. His follow-up The Folding Star won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. While in 2004 Hollinghurst went on to win the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. The novel, which is set in London during the Thatcherite 80s, was also adapted into a Â鶹ԼÅÄ television series by Andrew Davies. Most recently Hollinghurst published A Stranger’s Child about Cecil Valance, a minor poet who was killed in the First World War.
Edited version broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Booking is not required for this event. Entry is on a first-come-first-served basis (doors open from 30 minutes before the event begins; capacity is limited).
Image: Alan Hollinghurst © Robert Taylor