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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 21 Jun 1948
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Date of death - Still with us |
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Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot,England on June 21, 1948.
Ian spent much of his childhood in East Asia, Germany and North Africa, where his Scottish army officer father, David McEwan was posted.
Ian 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.
In 1976 his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), won the Somerset Maugham Award. A second volume of stories, In Between the Sheets, appeared in 1978.
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His next novel, The Child in Time (1987), won the Whitbread Novel Award, and marked a new confidence in McEwan's writing. The story is centred on the devastating effect of the loss of a child through abduction.
In addition to his prose fiction, Ian McEwan has also written plays for television and film screenplays, including The Ploughman's Lunch (1985), an adaptation of Timothy Mo's novel Sour Sweet (1988) and an adaptation of his own novel, The Innocent (1993).
Ian also wrote the libretto to Michael Berkeley's music for the oratorio Or Shall We Die? and is the author of a children's book, The Daydreamer (1994). |
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