Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan , novelist and British scenario writer, was born in 1948 with Aldershot in England

Biography

It passed most of its youth to the Far East, North Africa and Germany, where his/her father, officer in the British army, was sent. It made its studies in University off Sussex and University off East Anglia, where he was the first graduate of the course of creative writing created by Malcolm Bradbury.

Ian McEwan is member of Royal Society off Literature, Royal Society off Arts, and American Academy off Arts and Sciences. It received the Shakespeare Price of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS, of Hamburg, in 1999. It was made Commandeur of Order off the British Empire in 2000.

Its first book published was a collection of news: First Coils, Last Rites (1975), which gained the price Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. Its first novels are entitled The Cement Garden (1978) and Black Dogs (1992). Its novel of 1997, Enduring Coils , describes a character reached of the Syndrome of Clérambault. In 1998, the attribution of the Booker Prize with its short novel Amsterdam was discussed.

Works

(list of the works translated into French)

Novels

  • the cement Garden ( The Cement Garden , 1978) Threshold (1980)

  • a happiness of meeting / Strange seduction ( The Comfort off Strangers , 1981) Threshold (1983)/Points Novel n° 448 (1991)
  • the stolen Child ( The Child in Time , 1987, Whibread Novell off the Year Award) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (1993, Price Fémina foreigner 1993)
  • Innocent the ( Innocent The gold the special Relationship , 1990) Threshold (1990)
  • the black Dogs ( Black Dogs , 1992) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (1994)
  • Is delirious of love ( Enduring coils , 1997) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (1999)
  • Amsterdam ( Amsterdam , 1998, Booker Prize 1998) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (2001)
  • Expiation ( Atonement , 2001) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (2003).
  • Saturday ( Saturday , 2005) Gallimard “Of the whole world” (2006)
  • One Chesil Beach , 2007

Collections of news

  • First love, last rites : French translation of two collections of the author, ED. Henri Veyrier “Off” (1978).

    • First Coils, Last Rites , 1975, Prix Sommerset Maugham 1976
    • In-Between the Sheets , 1978
  • Reprise again First love, last rites under the title Under cloths and other news , Gallimard “Of the whole world” (1997)
  • Psychopolis and other news (Folio n° 3628,2001, extracted from Under cloths and other news )

Collection of news for youth

  • the Dreamer ( The Daydreamer , 1994) Gallimard-Youth “Reading Junior” n° 53 (1995)

News

  • the Schoolboys (in Europe n° 768, April 1993)
  • the Native tongue ( NRF n° 570, June 2004)

Scenarios

  • 1975 : Jack Flea' S Birthday Celebration (TV)
  • 1983: The Plowman's Buffet
  • 1984: Last Day off Summer (TV)
  • 1988: Soursweet
  • 1993 : the Good wire ( The Good Its )

See too

Critical bibliography

  • max Dupperay: Ian McEwan or the exquisite pain of the paradise lost in Europe n° 768 (April 1993).
  • Christine Reynier: the setting in scene of perversion at Ian McEwan Text in line

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Ian McEwan on Internet Movie Database

Ian McEwan in the section books of Guardian
Ian McEwan in the site contemporary Authors of British Council

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