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Special Events

Special Events

Alan Hollinghurst
The Department of Gender Studies with host the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst for a public reading. His numerous novels including The Simming-Pool Library (1988). The Folding Star (1994) and Spell (1998). The Guardian praised Hollinghurst’s Swimming-Pool Library writing, “The first major novel in Britain to put gay life in its modern place and context…A historic novel and a historic début.”

In addition to the reading, Hollinghurst will answer questions and informally discuss his fictional works. Hollinghurst is distinguished with the Somerset Maugham Award and has been short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 5:30-7:00 Popper Room, CEU