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McEwan, Ian Russell 

• https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25596
• Published online: 01 December 2007
• This version: 01 December 2019

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CBE 2000; FRSL

Born 21 June 1948; s of late Major (retd) David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet Moore; m1982, Penny Allen (marr. diss. 1995); two s two d; m 1997, Annalena McAfee

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Education

Woolverstone Hall Sch.; Univ. of Sussex (BA Hons Eng. Lit.); Univ. of East Anglia (MA Eng. Lit.)

Career

Began writing, 1970. Hon. Member: Amer. Acad. of Arts and Scis, 1996; Amer. Acad. of Arts and Letters, 2006. FRSL 1982; FRSA. Hon. DLitt Sussex, 1989; Hon. DLit London, 1998; Hon. LittD: E Anglia, 1993; UCL, 2008; Hull, 2009. Shakespeare Prize, FVS Foundn, Hamburg, 1999. Films: The Ploughman’s Lunch, 1983; Last Day of Summer, 1984; Soursweet, 1988; The Innocent, 1993; The Good Son, 1994

Publications

First Love, Last Rites, 1975 (filmed, 1997); In Between the Sheets, 1978; The Cement Garden, 1978 (filmed, 1993); The Imitation Game, 1981; The Comfort of Strangers, 1981 (filmed, 1991); Or Shall we Die? (oratorio; score by Michael Berkeley), 1982; The Ploughman’s Lunch (film script), 1985; The Child in Time, 1987 (Whitbread Award; Prix Fémina, 1993; filmed, 2017); Soursweet (film script), 1989; The Innocent, 1990; Black Dogs, 1992; The Daydreamer, 1994; The Short Stories, 1995; Enduring Love, 1997 (filmed, 2004); Amsterdam, 1998 (Booker Prize, 1998); Atonement, 2001 (filmed, 2006); Rose Blanche, 2004; Saturday, 2005 (James Tait Black Meml Prize, 2006); On Chesil Beach, 2007 (film script, 2018); For You (opera libretto; score by Michael Berkeley), 2008; Solar, 2010; Sweet Tooth, 2012; The Children Act, 2014 (filmed, 2018); Nutshell, 2016; Machines Like Me, 2019; The Cockroach (novella), 2019

Recreations

hiking, tennis, cooking

Address

c/o Jonathan Cape, Random Century House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road SW1V 2SA

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