Ian mcewan author biography outline
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Ian McEwan: biography
| Ian McEwan's Biography | |
| Birth: | 21st June 1948 |
| Father: | David McEwan |
| Mother: | Rose Lilian Violet Moore |
| Spouse/Partners: | Penny Allen (1982-1995), Annalena McAfee (1997 - present) |
| Children: | 2 |
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| Nationality: | English |
| Literary Period: | Postmodernism |
Born in Aldershot, Hampshire on 21st June 1948, McEwan spent his early childhood in East Asia, Germany and North Africa. His father, David McEwan, was a Scotsman who worked his way up in the Army, retiring as a Major. Rose Lilian Violet McEwan, his mother, was married and had two children when she met David. They started an romantisk händelse which then turned into a surprise pregnancy and then marriage.
The child was given up for adoption and Rose McEwan no längre had much contact with the two children from her first marriage. McEwan only later discovered his brother, who had been given up for adoption.
When Ian McEwan was 12 and he was sent to Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk.
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Ian McEwan
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Paris, 2011 | |
| Born | Ian Russell McEwan (1948-06-21) 21 June 1948 (age 76) Aldershot, England, UK |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1975–present |
| Genre | Recent history |
| Spouse | Penny Allen (m. 1982–1995, divorced) Annalena McAfee (m. 1997–) |
| www.ianmcewan.com | |
Ian Russell McEwan[1]CH, CBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 21 June 1948), is an Englishnovelist (who is also called "Ian Macabre" because of the type of his early work).
Biography
[change | change source]McEwan was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England and spent much of his childhood in the Far East, Germany and North Africa where his father, an officer in the army, was posted. He was educated at the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, where he was the first graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's pioneering creative writing course.
He has been married twice. His second wife, Annalena McAfee, is the editor of the Gu
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Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter (born 1948)
Ian Russell McEwanCH 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".[1]
McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His next novel, Atonement, garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. His later novels have included The Children Act, Nutshell, and Machines Like Me