Bibliography
See studies by K. Ryan (1994), C. Byrnes (1995), J. Slay, Jr. (1996), C. Byrnes (2002), D. Malcolm (2002), and P. Childs, ed. (2005).
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See studies by K. Ryan (1994), C. Byrnes (1995), J. Slay, Jr. (1996), C. Byrnes (2002), D. Malcolm (2002), and P. Childs, ed. (2005).
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
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Ian Mcewan
| Born: | June 21 1948 Aldershot |
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| Occupation: | Author, screenwriter |
| Nationality: | British |
| Writing period: | 1975 - present |
| Genres: | Recent history |
| Debut works: | First Love, Last Rites |
| Influences: | Virginia Woolf |
| Website: | www.ianmcewan.com |
Ian McEwan
McEwan was born in Aldershot in England and spent much of his childhood in East Asia, Germany and North Africa, where his army officer father was posted. He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, where he was the first graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's pioneering creative writing course.
He has been married twice. His second wife, Annalena McAfee, is the editor of The Guardian's Review section. In 1999, his first wife, Penny Allen, absconded with McEwan's 13-year-old son after a court in Brittany, France, ruled that the boy should be returned to his father, who had been granted sole custody over him and his 15-year-old brother.[1]
In March and April 2004, just months after the British government invited him to dinner with American First Lady Laura Bush, McEwan was denied entry into the United States by the Department of Homeland Security for not having the proper visa.[2] After several days publicity in the British press, McEwan was admitted because, as he quoted a customs official telling him, "We still don't want to let you in, but this is attracting a lot of unfavourable publicity."[3] The US government later sent a letter of apology.[4]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. Ian McEwan is also a Distinguished
Supporter of the British Humanist Association. He was awarded a
In 2002, Ian McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during World War II - the story became public in 2007.[6] The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharpe, was born six years earlier than McEwan, when his mother was married to a different man. Sharpe has the same two parents as McEwan but was born from an affair between McEwan's parents that occurred before their marriage. After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married her lover, and Ian was born a few years later.[7]
His first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his two earliest novels. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed "Ian Macabre" .[8] These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s.
His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about a person with de Clerambault's syndrome, is regarded by many as a masterpiece, though it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[9][10] In 1998, he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam. His next novel, Atonement, received considerable high acclaim; Time Magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. His next work, Saturday, follows an especially eventful day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon. Henry Perowne, the main character, lives in a house on a well known square in central London, where McEwan now lives after having relocated from Oxford. Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005. His latest novel, On Chesil Beach has been shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize.
McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, and an oratorio.
As of August 2007 McEwan is writing the libretto to an opera called "For You", which tells the story of a composer whose sexual and professional prowess have passed their peak. It is being composed by Michael Berkeley and is set to be performed in 2008. [11]
In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy when it was alleged that McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly acclaimed novel Atonement.[8][12] McEwan publicly protested his innocence; in The Guardian newspaper, he responded to the claim, stating he had acknowledged Andrews' work in the author's note at the end of Atonement.[13][14] McEwan has been defended by many leading writers, including the American novelist Thomas Pynchon.[8]
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Novels: The Cement Garden (1978) • The Comfort of Strangers (1981) • The Child in
Time (1987) • The Innocent (1989) • Black Dogs (1992) • Enduring
Love (1997) • Amsterdam (1998) • Atonement (2001) • Saturday (2005) •
On Chesil Beach (2007) |
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| NAME | McEwan, Ian |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aldershot, England |
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