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Ian McEwan
Birth at
21 June 1948
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British writer Ian Russell McEwan (Ian Russell McEwan) was born on June 21, 1948 in the family of a career Scottish officer in the small military town of Aldershot and spent his childhood in the military bases where his father served.
When Ian was twelve, the family returned to England. Ian enrolled at Wolverstone boarding school, where he first became interested in English romantic poetry and modern American and English fiction. After graduating from university in Brighton, Ian McEwan received
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British writer Ian Russell McEwan (Ian Russell McEwan) was born on June 21, 1948 in the family of a career Scottish officer in the small military town of Aldershot and spent his childhood in the military bases where his father served.
When Ian was twelve, the family returned to England. Ian enrolled at Wolverstone boarding school, where he first became interested in English romantic poetry and modern American and English fiction. After graduating from university in Brighton, Ian McEwan received a bachelor's degree in English literature and was accepted to the University of East Anglia.
After completing his studies, Ian went to Afghanistan. In 1975, he published his first collection of short stories called First Love, The Last Anointing, for which the author received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.
In 1978, Ian McEwan's second collection "Between the Broken Sheets" was published, as well as his debut novel "Cement Garden".
Throughout the 1980s, McEwan mostly worked on screenplays for television and film. In the same period, the author wrote the novels “Consolation of Wanderers” (1981) and “Child in Time” (1987).
Most of McEwan’s works are characterized by the character of a psychological thriller, unexpected turns in the depiction of characters and chilling climaxes. Widely known writer brought the novels “Amsterdam” (1998), “Unbearable love” (1997), “Atonement” (2001).
The last of Ian McEwan's published novels, Sunny, was nominated for the Woodhouse Award for Best Humoristic Novel of 2009. This nomination is completely inconsistent with the writer’s nickname “Gloomy Ian”, received by him for the complex and deep problems raised in his works.