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Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. 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. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday, and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards. McEwan has been named the Reader's Digest Author of the Year for 2008, the 2010 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, and in 2011 was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. McEwan lives in London. His new novel is Sweet Tooth. It will be published in late August by Jonathan Cape, in November by Doubleday and, first, in Brazil in July by Companhia das letras. |
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Recent Publications Mathews, Peter. "After the Victorians: The Historical Turning Point in McEwan's On Chesil Beach" Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 53.1 (2012): 82-91. Print. Sumera, Adam. Woman and Authority in Ian McEwans Conversation with a Cupboard Man and Its Film Adaptation. Text Matters 1 (2011): 123-134. Kosmalska, Joanna. Dichotomous Images in McEwans Saturday: in Pursuit of Objective Balance.' Text Matters 1 (2011): 270-277. He looked around at his fellow mourners now, many of them his own age, Molly's age, to within a year or two. How prosperous, how influential, how they had flourished under a government they had despised for almost seventeen years. Talking 'bout my generation. Such energy, such luck. Nurtured in the postwar settlement with the state's own milk and juice, and then sustained by their parents' tentative, innocent prosperity, to come of age in full employment, new universities, bright paperback books, the Augustan age of rock and roll, affordable ideals. When the ladder crumbled behind them, when the state withdrew her tit and became a scold, they were already safe, they consolidated and settled down to forming this or that--taste, opinion, fortunes. -- from Amsterdam by Ian McEwan |
(A new novel by Ian McEwan)
Sweet Tooth will be published by Jonathan Cape at the end of August and by Doubleday in November. It will first be available in Brazil in July by Companhia das letras. Ian McEwan's story "Hand on the Shoulder" was published in the April 30, 2012 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman also conducted an interview with McEwan about his story and upcoming novel. You may download it on iTunes or on The New Yorker website.
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Conversations with Ian McEwan |
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![]() Ryan Roberts, editor. Conversations with Ian McEwan. University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781604734201 |
Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the author (b. 1948) of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and the major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society. McEwan's candid and forthcoming discussions with some of the greatest minds of his time -- Martin Amis, Christopher Ricks, Zadie Smith, Ian Hamilton, Antony Gormley, David Remnick, and Steven Pinker -- provide readers the most in-depth portrait available of the author and his works. Readers will find McEwan to be just as engaging, humorous, and intelligent as his writings suggest. The volume includes interviews from British, Spanish, French, and American sources, two interviews previously available only in audio format, and a new interview conducted with the book's editor. Available from the University Press of Mississippi, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble, or from a variety of Independent Booksellers. |
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