The Swimming Pool Library

Sir Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer, and translator best known for his gay-themed fiction, including notable works like The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Line of Beauty (2004 Booker Prize winner), The Stranger's Child (2011), The Sparsholt Affair (2017), and Our Evenings (2024). He has received major awards such as the Somerset Maugham Award (1989), James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1994), and was knighted for services to literature. He lives in London and is confirmed alive.