Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels, including ‘The Swimming-Pool Library’, ‘The Folding Star’, ‘The Spell’, ‘The Line of Beauty’, ‘The Stranger’s Child’, ‘The Sparsholt Affair’ and ‘Our Evenings’. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels, including ‘The Swimming-Pool Library’, ‘The Folding Star’, ‘The Spell’, ‘The Line of Beauty’, ‘The Stranger’s Child’, ‘The Sparsholt Affair’ and ‘Our Evenings’. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.
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Ali Smith – Gliff Q&A
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