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He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His next novel, Atonement, garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar -winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. His later novels have included The Children Act, Nutshell, and Machines Like Me. He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize, and the 2011 Jerusalem Prize.
- Atonement | The Life-Changing Power of Storytelling
- The Cement Garden | A Story For A New Generation
- The Comfort of Strangers |A Voyage Into Darkness
- The Innocent| The Secrets Within
- Enduring Love| The Thin Line Between Truth and Madness
Ian McEwan's 2001 novel Atonement began with a single image. While sitting in a park with his boys playing nearby, McEwan imagined "a young woman standing in a doorway, with wild flowers in her hand, looking for a vase." Spiraling out from single thought came an epic tale of three people whose lives are tragically intertwined by the lie one of them...
In 1978, Ian McEwan published his first novel The Cement Garden, a gothic exploration of four children left to raise themselves after their parents die. While this dark, tangled tale of children run amok shocked some more conventional critics, a whole new generation of readers found McEwan's honesty fresh and inspiring. Novelist William Sutcliffe r...
With his second novel The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan went deeper into the nature of desire and self-deception. When Mary and Colin, a young English couple vacationing in a city very much like Venice, get lost in a neighborhood of labyrinthine canals, they are rescued by a local named Robert who takes them home to meet his wife Caroline. This ...
Published in 1990,The Innocent marked a change in style and substance for McEwan. Loosely based on an actual incident, the novel is set in Berlin in 1955. A young naïve Englishman, Leonard Marnham, has been hired by the Americans as a technician to install surveillance equipment in Berlin to monitor the Soviets. But when a night out with a date goe...
In figuring out the plot for his 1997 novel Enduring Love, McEwan was drawn to a real-life anecdote that illustrates the complexity of human nature. "I heard this true story about a man and his son who were hauled away by a balloon they were trying to tether in some field in Germany," McEwan told Salon. "If you all hang on, you can bring this ballo...
Feb 24, 2021 · When McEwan started publishing fiction in the Seventies, he’d earned a Private Eye nickname of Ian Macabre: his novels were littered with unflinching and detailed accounts of grisly dismemberments, kidnappings and euthanasia pacts.
Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based on the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan. The film chronicles a crime and its consequences over six decades, beginning in the 1930s.
Jun 18, 2014 · Ian McEwan won the Man Booker Prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam. Despite a difficult childhood, McEwan soon became an acclaimed author.
Oct 8, 2016 · Author Ian McEwan has seen a string of his novels adapted into big-name Hollywood movies, but he knew his latest book, Nutshell, was unlikely to make the big screen, due to its unusual...
When director Sam Mendes first approached Ian McEwan with the idea of turning his 2007 Booker-nominated novella On Chesil Beach into a movie, the author had just one stipulation.
