Ian McEwan
British novelist: Atonement, Amsterdam (Booker Prize 1998), Lessons, What We Can Know.
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- Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter.
- His early short stories and first novels, The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers, earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre".
- He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998, and Atonement (2001) was adapted into an Oscar-winning film.
- Later novels include Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar, The Children Act, Machines Like Me, Lessons (2022) and What We Can Know (2025), about climate change, set in 2120.
Key facts
- Born
- 21 June 1948, Aldershot, Hampshire1
- Education
- University of Sussex (English literature, 1970); MA, University of East Anglia1
- First book
- First Love, Last Rites (1975), short stories; Somerset Maugham Award 19761
- Booker Prize
- Won for Amsterdam (1998); shortlisted for The Comfort of Strangers, Black Dogs, Atonement and On Chesil Beach1
- Novels
- Atonement (2001); Saturday (2005); On Chesil Beach (2007); Solar (2010); The Children Act (2014); Machines Like Me (2019); Lessons (2022); What We Can Know (2025), his 18th1
- Honours
- CBE (2000); Jerusalem Prize (2011); Goethe Medal (2020); Companion of Honour (2023)1
- Lives in
- London1
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