Which author won the 2004 Booker Prize for 'The Line of Beauty'?

Which author won the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty? Alan Hollinghurst won the prize for his novel The Line of Beauty.

Published in 2004, the novel follows Nick Guest, a young gay man who becomes closely involved with an upper-class family in 1980s London. Its setting overlaps with the political and social atmosphere of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, while the story examines class, privilege, sexuality and the AIDS crisis.

The title refers to William Hogarth's “line of beauty,” an S-shaped or ogee curve discussed in his 1753 book The Analysis of Beauty. That artistic idea becomes a recurring symbol in the novel, linking physical attractiveness, taste, desire and the pursuit of beauty.

Readers sometimes confuse Hollinghurst with other prominent British Booker writers such as Sebastian Faulks or Julian Barnes. The prize belongs specifically to Hollinghurst, whose novel was later adapted into a three-part BBC television drama broadcast in 2006.