Ian McEwan - Award Winning Author And Screenwriter
Ian McEwan has been writing fiction since the 1970's 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 simply to share my enjoyment of Ian McEwan's work...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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Ian McEwan - Contents
Ian McEwan, author
- Biography Of Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan - The Book Show Interview
- More About Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan - International Reading Series Part 1
- Ian McEwan Bibliography
- Ian McEwan's Awards
- Ian McEwan - International Reading Series Part 2
- Ian McEwan Weblinks
- Ian McEwan, Writer
- The Cement Garden By Ian McEwan
- The Comfort Of Stangers By Ian McEwan
- The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
- The Innocent By Ian McEwan
- Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
- Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
- Atonement By Ian McEwan
- Saturday By Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
- First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
- In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
- What's Your Favourite Ian McEwan Book?
- Understanding Ian McEwan (UK Customers)
- Understanding Ian McEwan (USA Customers)
- Word of the Day
- Ian McEwan Feedback
- Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan Links
Biography Of Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan biography
Ian Russell McEwan was born on June 21 1948 in Aldershot in England.The son of an army officer, the young 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 studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a Batcheor 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.
He 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!).
Additionally 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 - The Book Show Interview
Ian McEwan Interviews
Ian McEwan -- The Book Show Episode 21 -- Sky Arts
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More About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan article on Wikipedia
McEwan was born in Aldershot in England and spent much of his childhood in East Asia, Germany and North Africa, where his Scottish army officer father, David McEwan, 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, was formerly the editor of The Guardian's Review section. In 1999, his first wife, Penny Allen, took their 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.
In March and April 2004, just months after the British government invited him to dinner with Laura Bush, McEwan was denied entry into the United States by the Department of Homeland Security for not having the proper visa. 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." The US government later sent a letter of apology.
McEwan 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 CBE in 2000.
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. 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. The two are in regular contact, and McEwan has written a foreword to Sharpe's memoir.
In 2008, Ian McEwan was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College, London, where he used to teach English literature.
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." 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. 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 shortlisted 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. He wrote an article for chinadialogue about climate change in 2005. His most recent novel, On Chesil Beach, was shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize. McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, and an oratorio.
McEwan's most recent completed work is the libretto to an opera called "For You" composed by Michael Berkeley, which tells the story of a composer whose sexual and professional prowess have passed their peak. It is to be performed in November 2008 by Music Theatre Wales.
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Ian McEwan - International Reading Series Part 1
Ian McEwan Interviewed
International Reading Series with Ian McEwan - Part 1
This episode takes us to the Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto for the International Reading Series with critically acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. McEwan reads from his latest novel On Chesil Beach, and afterwards we get highlights of a conversation between McEwan and Walrus Magazine editor, Ken Alexander. McEwan has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1999. He is probably best known for Atonement, which garnered him the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002 and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction award in 2003.
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Ian McEwan Bibliography
The works of Ian McEwan
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)
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 Awards
A list of literary awards Ian McEwan has been given for his work
The Comfort of Strangers - shortlisted for The Booker Prize For Fiction 1981
The Child In Time - Whitbread Novel Award 1987 and Prix Fémina Etranger (France 1993)
Enduring Love - shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1997
Amsterdam - The Booker Prize For Fiction 1998
Atonement - shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, the WH Smith Award for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) and winner of the WH Smith Literary Award 2001 and the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (USA) in 2003
Saturday - James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2006
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Ian McEwan - International Reading Series Part 2
Ian McEwan Interviewed
International Reading Series with Ian McEwan - Part 2
This episode takes us to the Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto for the International Reading Series with critically acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. McEwan reads from his latest novel On Chesil Beach, and afterwards we get highlights of a conversation between McEwan and Walrus Magazine editor, Ken Alexander. McEwan has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1999. He is probably best known for Atonement, which garnered him the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002 and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction award in 2003.
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Ian McEwan Weblinks
Links to websites about Ian Mc Ewan and/or his works
- Ian McEwan Website: Homepage
- Website devoted to the British author Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wikipedia page about Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan bio, bibliography and critical persepctive
- McEwan, Ian | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books
- The Guardian Unlimited page on Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan Internet Movie Database
- Ian McEwan on IMDb
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Ian McEwan, Writer
The Cement Garden By Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden - novel first published in 1978
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The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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"The Cement Garden" is Ian McEwan's' first novel, originally published in 1978. The Cement Garden is a beautifully crafted, but very dark tale of childhood and lost innocence... This is how the novel starts; "It was not at all clear to me now why w...
The Comfort Of Stangers By Ian McEwan
The Comfort Of Stangers - novel first published in 1981
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The Comfort Of Strangers By Ian McEwan
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The Comfort Of Strangers is Ian McEwan's second novel, first published in 1981. A bored couple journey to an un-named city in search of excitement. There they meet an enigmatic stranger who entangles them in a web from which there may be no escape.....
The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
The Child In Time - novel first published in 1987
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The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
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"The Child In Time" is Ian McEwan's third novel, first published in 1987. The Child In Time deals with the tragic and upsetting theme of child abduction. Stephen Lewis, a children's book author, takes his 3-year-old daughter Kate on a routine Satur...
The Innocent By Ian McEwan
The Innocent - novel first published in 1989
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The Innocent By Ian McEwan
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"The Innocent" is Ian McEwan's third novel, first published in 1989. "The Innocent" is centered around Leonard Markham, a young, idealistic English electronics engineer sent to Germany during the Cold War to work on an Anglo-American intelligence pr...
Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
Black Dogs - novel first published In 1992
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Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
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"Black Dogs" is a novel by multi-award winning British author Ian McEwan, first published in 1992. In 1946, a young couple, Bernard and June, set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday...
Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
Enduring Love - novel first published in 1997
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Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
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"Enduring Love" is a novel by award winning writer Ian McEwan, first published in 1997 On an ordinary spring day, during an ordinary picnic, the calm, organised, ordinary life of science writer Joe Rose is blown apart due to the repercussions of a t...
Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
Amsterdam - novel first published in 1998
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Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
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"Amsterdam" is a novel by multi-award winning author Ian McEwan, first published in 1998. The plot of "Amsterdam" follows two old friends, Clive, a composer and Vernon, a newspaper editor, who attend the funeral of a woman who had been a friend and...
Atonement By Ian McEwan
Atonement - novel first published in 2001
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Atonement By Ian McEwan
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"Atonement" is a novel by award winning writer, Ian McEwan, first published in 2001. "Atonement" was made into a multi-award winning film which was released in 2007 The plot of "Atonement" follows the life of Briony Tallis, from naive teenager to el...
Saturday By Ian McEwan
Saturday - novel first published in 2005
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Saturday By Ian McEwan
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"Saturday" is a novel by multi-award winning author, Ian McEwan, first published in 2005. "Saturday" is the story of a day in the life of a 48 year old London neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne. The novel is set on Saturday, 15th February 2003. Henry wake...
On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach - novel first published in 2007
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On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
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"On Chesil Beach" is a novel by multi-award winning author, Ian McEwan first published in 2007 On a summer evening in 1962, just before the "sexual revolution", two newlyweds sit down to dinner in the honeymoon suite of a Dorset hotel. Edward and Fl...
First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
First Love, Last Rites - a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan, first published in 1975
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First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
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First Love, Last Rites is Ian McEwan's first collection of short stories and was originally published in 1975. This collection was Ian McEwan's first published work and comprises a collection of eight short stories, all of which are summarised indiv...
In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
In Between The Sheets - a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan, first published in 1978
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In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
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"In Between The Sheets" is a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ian McEwan, first published in 1978 Like McEwan's earlier short story collection, "First Love, Last Rites", the individual stories in "In Between The Sheets" are linke...
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Understanding Ian McEwan (UK Customers)
Guides to help interpret Ian McEwan's work
Understanding Ian McEwan
(Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
"This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, "The Child in Time", as the fulcrum for his discussion, Malcolm explores the themes of incest, espionage, moral self-flagellation, sexual fixation, political dysfunction, and personal antipathy evident in the other fiction. He illuminates the continuities obscured by the conventional approach to McEwan's fiction and raises the question whether McEwan is a novelist of brilliant fragments or of overall coherence."
The Fiction of Ian McEwan
(Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
"This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with editorial comment providing context, drawing attention to key points and identifying differences in critical perspectives. The book features selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan and covers all of the writer's novels up to and including Saturday."
"In this survey, Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction. His ability to make the serious popular, and the popular serious, signals McEwan's importance as a writer who has helped reinvigorate contemporary thinking about the novel. McEwan's novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an economical stylist: McEwan's readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing. McEwan occupies a central role in a new wave of British novelists whose mature writing began to emerge in the Thatcher era. He stands alongside Martin Amis, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro - those writers who fashioned an ethical vision for 'post-consensus' Britain in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists."
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