Alan Hollinghurst | The Books That Made Me

Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Headshot of Alan Hollinghurst

Go All In to the books that have inspired the life and works of one of our literary greats, Sir Alan Hollinghurst and discover the books that have inspired and engaged him from his early life in Gloucestershire and Dorset via a degree from Oxford to a writer’s life in London. He won the prestigious 2025 David Cohen Prize for a body of work written in the English language.

Venue: Palmerston Room

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of six previous novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty (winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize), The Stranger’s Child and The Sparsholt Affair. He lives in London.

 

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