biography
| name: |
McEwan, Ian (Russell)
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pronunciation:
[muhkyooan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Aldershot, Hampshire, S England, UK. He attracted immediate attention with two collections of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between The Sheets (1977), and a novella, The Cement Garden (1978). His novels include The Child in Time (1987, Whitbread), The Innocent (1990), Black Dogs (1992), Amsterdam (1998, Booker), and Atonement (2001). He has also written screenplays, notably The Ploughman's Lunch (1983). |
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