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Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture ".
About Ian McEwan: Ian McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
'Ian McEwan’s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico’s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb.'
Jun 17, 2024 · Ian McEwan, British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark humor and perverse subject matter. His notable books included Amsterdam, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach. Learn more about McEwan’s life and work.
Ian McEwan is one of the finest writers of his generation, and amongst the most controversial. He has achieved unbroken popular and critical success since, on graduating from Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative Writing Programme, he won the Somerset Maugham Award for his collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975).
Sep 13, 2022 · Ian McEwan. 4.00. 25,266 ratings3,316 reviews. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down.
Sep 13, 2022 · LESSONS. By Ian McEwan. 431 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation — among other topics — than Ian McEwan. He specializes in the mental...
