Author Ian McEwan
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Ian McEwan was born in 1948 in Aldershot, England, and now lives in London. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.
McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His bestselling novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He also won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
Learn more about Ian McEwan at www.ianmcewan.com.
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"Finely wrought and shimmering
with intelligence."
—The New York Times Book Review
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"McEwan is supremely gifted. . . . SATURDAY is a tightly wound tour de force."
—The Washington Post Book World
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"This extraordinary book is not a political novel. It is a novel about consciousness that illuminates the sources of politics."
—The Nation
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