Ian McEwan and his works
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Ian McEwan
Better known as the author of "Atonement", Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a Bachelor of Arts 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. McEwan is well known for his unique disquieting style, and has won numerous awards with his writing. One of the top awards in literature is the Booker Prize and Ian McEwan won the 1998 award with his book, Amsterdam. Ian's talent is never at doubt so if you pick up any of his
Books you can expect a good read. He has written numerous novels and short stories: "The Day Dreamer"; "Black Dogs"(Short listed for the Booker Prize); "The Innocent"; "The Child In Time"; "The Comfort of Strangers"; "The Ploughman's Lunch"; "Soursweet"; "The Imitation Game"; "Or Shall We Die?"; and "Between the Sheets". His collection of short stories"First Love, Last Rites", dealing with problems of sexual initiation, won the Somerset Maugham Award. The themes of sex and perversion also come to light, whereby even children are denied innocence...