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Ian McEwan - British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, And Screenwriter

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Ian McEwan - Award Winning Author And Screenwriter

Ian McEwan has been writing fiction since the 1970s and has written many bestsellers and received numerous literary awards and glowing critical acclaim.

It is difficult to sum up Ian McEwan's writing...a few words and phrases spring to mind...bold, imaginative, frequently dark, unafraid to explore "taboo" subjects, compelling, sometimes shocking, intelligent, gripping...he writes like a surgeon at work, steadily stripping away layer after familiar layer of even the most ordinary and everyday ideas and principles until what's left is alien, raw and bleeding...he takes comfort and familiarity and reveals the monsters lurking within...

The purpose of this page is both a general look at Ian McEwan and his works and a lensography of my own Ian McEwan lenses ...each novel or book now has a separate page of it's own, so if you want detailed information about a particular novel or short story, click the individual link provided below.

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Biography Of Ian McEwan

The life and career of writer Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan was born on June 21 1948 in Aldershot in England.

The son of an army officer, the young Ian McEwan spent much of his childhood travelling the world to wherever his father was posted - places as diverse as Singapore, Germany and North Africa.

He later studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a Batchelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1970. He went on to take a Master of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia in 1971.

McEwan started his writing career with short stories and sold his first to the New American Review in 1971.

Since then he has written ten novels and two collections of short stories (all reviewed individually here!).

In addition to his novels and short stories, Ian McEwan is also the author of several screenplays, childrens fiction, a play and an oratorio.

Ian McEwan is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1999.

He was awarded a CBE in 2000.

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Ian McEwan Bibliography

The works of Ian McEwan

Novels;
The Cement Garden (1978)
The Comfort of Strangers (1981)
The Child in Time (1987)
The Innocent (1990)
Black Dogs (1992)
Enduring Love (1997)
Amsterdam (1998)
Atonement (2001)
Saturday (2005)
On Chesil Beach (2007)
Solar (2010)

Short story collections;
First Love, Last Rites (1975)
In Between the Sheets (1978)

Children's fiction;
Rose Blanche (1985)
The Daydreamer (1994)

Play;
The Imitation Game (1981)

Screenplays;
The Ploughman's Lunch (1985)
Sour Sweet (1989)
The Good Son (1993)

Oratorio;
or Shall We Die? (1983)

Opera;
For You (2008)

Ian McEwan's Novels And Short Story Collections