Ian McEwan, author portrait
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Ian McEwan

IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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What We Can Know
Lessons
Machines Like Me
The Cockroach
My Purple Scented Novel
Nutshell
The Children Act
Sweet Tooth
Solar
On Chesil Beach
Saturday
Atonement
The Daydreamer
The Child in Time
Amsterdam
The Innocent
Black Dogs
Enduring Love
In Between the Sheets
The Comfort of Strangers
The Cement Garden
First Love, Last Rites

Advice for aspiring writers | Ian McEwan

Books

What We Can Know
Lessons
Machines Like Me
The Cockroach
My Purple Scented Novel
Nutshell
The Children Act
Sweet Tooth
Solar
On Chesil Beach
Saturday
Atonement
The Daydreamer
The Child in Time
Amsterdam
The Innocent
Black Dogs
Enduring Love
In Between the Sheets
The Comfort of Strangers
The Cement Garden
First Love, Last Rites

Media

Advice for aspiring writers | Ian McEwan

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