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Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

Alan Hollinghurst

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

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About Alan Hollinghurst

Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988.