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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.
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.
McEwan later submitted the paper to the British Journal of Psychiatry under the name of the paper's fictional writers, [5] but it was not published. Speaking in 1999, McEwan said "I get four or five letters a week, usually from reading groups but sometimes from psychiatrists and scholars, asking if I wrote the appendix."
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".
The collection is McEwan's first published work and was regarded by the author (along with his second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets) as an opportunity to experiment and find his voice as a writer. In an interview with Christopher Ricks in 1979, McEwan commented, "They were a kind of laboratory for me. They allowed me to try ...
Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian McEwan, about a euthanasia pact between two friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, whose relationship spins into disaster. The novel explores themes of morality, friendship, betrayal, and the media, and received mixed reviews from critics.
The Children Act is a 2014 novel by Ian McEwan about a judge who faces a difficult case involving a teenage Jehovah's Witness and a blood transfusion. The novel explores themes of law, morality, marriage and religion, and has received mixed reviews.
A cockroach becomes the prime minister of the UK and implements a bizarre policy of Reversalism, where workers pay employers and exporters pay importers. The novella, inspired by Kafka's The Metamorphosis, is a comic critique of Brexit and its supporters and opponents.