Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child In Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday and On Chesil Beach.
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I’m working through an unreliable list of reasons for writing. Why I Wrote 3: Something really important to say. You think you have something that people really, truly do need to hear. Of course you do, just like the rest of us. No, no, you protest, mine really is important…you must listen. It’s precocious, isn’t it? Like a shrill four-year demanding his mother pay attention to his observations...
Ian McEwan, author of the brilliant novel SOLAR, has been announced as the winner of the Jerusalem Prize to be awarded during the 25th International Book Fair in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Prize is awarded to the author whose work best articulate the idea of ''freedom of the individual in society.'' The jury held high praises for Ian’s work, stating, 'McEwan’s protagonists struggle for their...
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Books by Ian McEwan
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Enduring Love
by Ian McEwanDesigner Vintage Classics edition. Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Cover design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
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For You
by Ian McEwanA powerful drama of passion, obsession and tragedy from one of Britain’s greatest living writers.
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On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwanA short novel of quite remarkable depth, power and poignancy by a writer at the height of his powers
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Rose Blanche
by Ian McEwanAn important and unforgettable story, brilliantly re-told by Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan.
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan'Easily his most enjoyable book - McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph
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Black Dogs
by Ian McEwanI judge it his best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal - Observer
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First Love, Last Rites
by Ian McEwanA brilliant performance. There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories - as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon - Observer
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In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwanHis stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognisable world of private fantasy and nightmare - a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in - Observer
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The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan'A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right' - Tom Paulin
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The Daydreamer
by Ian McEwanIllustrated by Anthony Browne, THE DAYDREAMER takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune.
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The Daydreamer
by Ian McEwanThe Daydreamer takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune
