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Ian McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter who won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and wrote Atonement. Learn about his life, career, works, awards, and views on religion and politics.
On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan.It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten list for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".
Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan.The novel was published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape.. The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative history timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is still alive, and the Internet, social media, and self-driving cars already exist.
Lessons is a semi-autobiographical story of a 14-year-old boy's sexual awakening and his piano teacher's seduction. The novel received positive reviews from critics and was praised for its shimmering prose and small dramas.
Saturday (2005) is a novel by Ian McEwan.It is set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Atonement is a 2001 British novel by Ian McEwan that explores the consequences of a young girl's mistake and the nature of writing. The novel is set in three time periods: 1935 England, World War II England and France, and present-day England, and was adapted into a film in 2007.
Amsterdam received the 1998 Booker Prize.Announcing the award, Douglas Hurd, the former British Foreign Secretary who served as the chairman of the five-judge panel, called McEwan's novel "a sardonic and wise examination of the morals and culture of our time."
Sweet Tooth is a 2012 novel by Ian McEwan, loosely based on his own life as a young writer in the 1970s. It tells the story of Serena Frome, a MI5 agent who falls in love with Thomas Haley, a writer funded by the agency to combat communism.