Celebrating Alan Hollinghurst
Event information
Where: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG
Date: Wednesday 25 February
Time: 6-7pm
Cost: £10
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In November 2025, Sir Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature, in acknowledgement of his remarkable catalogue of novels, and their contribution to literature.
To celebrate this achievement, Alan Hollinghurst will be in conversation with Tom Crewe about his 40 year career and ground-breaking novels, which examine class and sexuality, sweeping across decades to discuss some of the most memorable cultural moments of the last 60 years – from the AIDS crisis and Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s, to the COVID Pandemic – with honesty and humanity.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, including: The Swimming-Pool Library, The Line of Beauty, and Our Evenings. He is the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Man Booker Prize and the David Cohen Prize. He lives in London.
Chaired by Tom Crewe, author of The New Life and a contributing editor at the LRB.
Book sales by Forum Books.
This event is part of Right to Read, our programme across the North East in 2026 to celebrate the National Year of Reading.