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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 ".
Learn about Ian McEwan, the foremost storyteller of our times, and his latest novel Lessons. Explore his works, awards, interviews, essays, and more.
Jun 17, 2024 · Ian McEwan (born June 21, 1948, Aldershot, England) is a British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark humour and perverse subject matter.
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Learn about the life and career of Ian McEwan, one of the most acclaimed and controversial British writers of his generation. Explore his novels, short stories, film adaptations and critical perspectives.
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'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.'
Jul 27, 2012 · Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim.
Lessons is a new novel by Ian McEwan, a chronicle of our times and a powerful meditation on history and humanity. The novel follows Roland Baines, a man who faces the challenges of his life and the world, from the Second World War to the pandemic and climate change.
