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Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture ".
Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, has written an ambitious, mesmerising new novel, Lessons. The novel is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime.
Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control. Read More ›
Jun 17, 2024 · Ian McEwan, British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark humor and perverse subject matter. His notable books included Amsterdam, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach. Learn more about McEwan’s life and work.
Ian McEwan is one of the finest writers of his generation, and amongst the most controversial. He has achieved unbroken popular and critical success since, on graduating from Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative Writing Programme, he won the Somerset Maugham Award for his collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975).
Sep 13, 2022 · LESSONS. By Ian McEwan. 431 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation — among other topics — than Ian McEwan. He specializes in the...
Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, returns with an ambitious, mesmerising new novel. Lessons is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime.
Jul 27, 2012 · McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
Jun 16, 2023 · A fragile friendship descends into hatred and revenge, in Ian McEwan’s darkly humorous 1998 Booker Prize-winning novel. 25 years after winning the Booker for Amsterdam, Ian McEwan revisits his journals and talks about the inspirations behind the book, in an exclusive interview.
Ian McEwan, born in Aldershot, England, is a critically acclaimed author and winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. His collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the 1975 Somerset Maugham Award.
