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Ian McEwan was born on 21st June 1948 in Aldershot, England, and now lives in London. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.
He is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.
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Ian McEwan: On His Favorite Book to Film Adaptations
Ian McEwan: On Writing Screenplays
Ian McEwan: On Adapting His Novels to Film
The three videos above were recorded in 2011
Ian McEwan talks about his books and the thrill of winning the 1998 Booker Prize for Amsterdam
First, congratulations on the Booker Prize. How does it feel? What does it
mean to you?
It does have an extraordinary power, this prize. I think my experience must be
just the same as more or less everyone else's who has won. I have a literary
following and people have known about my books for years, but now the potential
readership suddenly leaps. The Booker somehow has caught everyone's imagination,
and you find that worldwide there's an interest in your writing from people who
otherwise wouldn't be reading it. That's the overwhelming difference.
Americans don't really have a prize that's equivalent to the Booker, in terms
of furor and public interest. Can you enlighten us about the meaning of the
Prize in Britain?
I think a series of accidents have made the Booker very powerful here. The fact
that it has a shortlist that is announced and left in place for about a month
allows ...
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