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Novelist Hollinghurst ‘thrilled’ to be knighted by the King

Former Booker Prize winner Sir Alan Hollinghurst said the award made him ‘pleased for writing and for the novel’.

Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2025

The Line Of Beauty author Alan Hollinghurst honoured with knighthood

He won the Booker Prize in 2004 for The Line Of Beauty, the first work of gay fiction to win the prestigious literary award.

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2024

Oxford University students vote against hanging King Charles portrait in common room

Exclusive: Magdalen college also refused to publish a statement wishing the monarch good health

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2024

Writer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: ‘The less the body works, the more you appreciate any bit that still does’

The writer and professor of English literature on being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and the more unexpected ways his life has been transformed

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2023

‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times

The long read: Austerity, the pandemic and now the cost of living crisis have left many schools in a parlous state. How hard do staff have to work to give kids the chances they deserve?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022

The ugly consequences of the right’s culture war

Letters: Dominic McGinley and Cynthia Dunn respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s article about the Oxford University student who became the focus of a rightwing press frenzy last summer

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022