CNN's chat show Talk Asia catches up with British author Alan Hollinghurst. He won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2004. He talks about his award-winning novel The Line of Beauty. The show airs on 7 May at 8:30 am, 10 am, 10:30 pm and on 8 May at 4 pm and 8:30 pm.

He says, "When I wrote my first book, which I started writing over 20 years ago now, gay lives and gay sexuality really hadn't been written about at all in literary fiction in England. And there did seem an urgency and originality in doing that. It was a whole new subject, which was just waiting to be written about. And I sort of did that."

During the half-hour interview, the British author also talks about his other novels - highly acclaimed volumes of prose describing life in the 1980s, homosexuality, Aids and Thatcherism. Hollinghurst continues to discuss his interests in literature, music and architecture and how he incorporates his hobbies into this novel.

"I think one of my pleasures, there's a sort of proxy way of being an architect if you like, that I do invent, construct houses in my books. That's sort of the nearest I get to do the real thing."

Additionally, the author chats about the influences in his life, his work as an editor for the Times Literary Supplement and professor at Oxford University, and the possibility of exploring new writing styles for his future literary works.

"I do feel that I want to do something different. I don't have another novel at the moment, but I do have a lot of ideas for stories so I want to see if I can do that. Short stories...which is something I've never really done."