# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Alan Hollinghurst: Delight in Dissent
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:40 pm
- **Event Description**: Lancaster Litfest and Lancaster Arts are truly delighted to welcome Alan Hollinghurst – winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty and the 2025 David Cohen Prize – to join us for a very special ‘in conversation’ event with Andrew Barker.

Since he burst onto the literary scene with The Swimming Pool Library in 1988, Alan Hollinghurst has challenged, entertained and excited readers with deeply felt, satirical and dissenting evocations of life in England at the intersection of class, sexuality and social change.

Now, in his latest novel Our Evenings, Hollinghurst chronicles England from the 1960s to the pandemic through the eyes of gay Anglo-Burmese actor, Dave Win. 

Alan will be joined by Andrew Barker, Library Director at Lancaster University who we last saw in our event with legendary record and film producer, Joe Boyd, and whose interest in Hollinghurst’s work goes back to the late 1980s. 

On influences, Hollinghurst says ‘From Tolkien I took an enduring, nearly mystical sense of landscape, and from Wodehouse a model of social comedy which would be deepened later on by reading Austen and Henry James and Waugh’
Interview for the Booker Prizes, June 2024
 

‘The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time’  
Alexandra Harris, Guardian  

 
Image Credit: Robert Taylor
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lancaster/alan-hollinghurst-delight-in-dissent/200029378880145
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.lancasterarts.org/youre-invited/whats-on/alan-hollinghurst-delight-in-dissent?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=lancaster-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Lancaster
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Nuffield Theatre - Lancaster Arts
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- **full address**: The Nuffield Theatre - Lancaster Arts, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Lancaster Arts (https://allevents.in/org/lancaster-arts/1845703)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Nuffield Theatre - Lancaster Arts, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Lancaster Arts
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, sports, workshops, theatre, comedy, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Alan Hollinghurst: Delight in Dissent ?
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