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Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
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Born 21 June 1948 · Q190379
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I just went numb for four or five years.
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“I think one should always make a distinction between a civil society and its government. It is the Jerusalem book fair, not the Israeli foreign ministry, which is making the award. I would urge people to make the distinction – it is about literature.”
“I just went numb for four or five years.”
“one and a half million oldsters freshly in their graves”
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The Guardian: Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’
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NPR: Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, 'What We Can Know'
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The Guardian: Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
The Guardian: Ian McEwan novel What We Can Know to be published this year
Yahoo: Ian McEwan's next novel, 'What We Can Know,' is science fiction 'without the science'
McEwan published his 18th novel What We Can Know, which follows the academic Tom Metcalfe
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McEwan, alongside Irvine Welsh, Jeanette Winterson and approximately 400 other authors and organisations, co-signed an open letter calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
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The Guardian: Atonement by Ian McEwan audiobook review – secrets and lies
Awarded Jean Monnet Prize (2024).
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The Guardian: Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts
The Guardian: Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken
Publishers Weekly: Books by Ian McEwan and Complete Book Reviews
Won Goethe Medal (2020).
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McEwan was awarded the Goethe Medal, a yearly prize given by the Goethe-Institut honouring non-Germans "who have performed outstanding service for the German language and for international cultural relations"
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McEwan received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Carlos III University (2018).
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McEwan was awarded the Bauer-Incroci di civiltà prize in Venice for his literary career
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For which McEwan wrote the screenplay
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“Britain is changed utterly. Unless this summer is just a bad dream”
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Won Bodley Medal (2014).
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The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas paid $2 million for McEwan's literary archives
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McEwan sharply criticised Stephen Hawking for boycotting a conference in Israel as well as the boycott campaign in general, stating that there are many countries "whose governments we might loathe or disapprove of" but "
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The University of Sussex presented McEwan with its 50th Anniversary Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to literature
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (2011).
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McEwan defended himself against criticism for accepting the prize in light of opposition to Israeli policies, saying: "If you didn't go to countries whose foreign policy or domestic policy is screwed up, you'd never get
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Awarded Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2010).
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Awarded Helmerich Award (2010).
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McEwan received the Peggy V
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Released album “For You”.
McEwan joined the 10:10 project, a movement that supports positive action on climate change by encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions
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In 2009, McEwan joined the 10:10 project, a movement that supports positive action on climate change by encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions.
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McEwan was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College London, where he had previously taught English literature
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The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture"
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The Times named McEwan among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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McEwan publicly spoke out against Islamism for its views on women and on homosexuality
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McEwan was among more than 200,000 signatories of a petition to support Italian journalist Roberto Saviano who received multiple death threats and was placed in police protection after exposing the Mafia-like crime syndi
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Stating: "I remember getting a lot of stick five or six years ago saying something disobliging about jihadists
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In 2008, McEwan publicly spoke out against Islamism for its views on women and on homosexuality.
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Turning away will not produce any result." That same year, as part of a wide-ranging interview with Channel 4 News, McEwan discussed the furore that surrounded his remarks on Islamism in 2008, stating: "I remember getting a lot of stick five or six years ago saying something disobliging about jihadists.
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Awarded Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (2007).
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Christopher Hitchens dedicated his book God Is Not Great to McEwan
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The critically acclaimed film Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas worldwide
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“s fiction, and an oratorio and a libretto titled For You with music composed by Michael Berkeley. In 2006, McEwan was accused of plagiarism; specifically that a passage in Atonement (2001) closely echoed a passage from a memoir, No Time for Romance, published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews. McEwan acknowledged using the book as a source for his work. McEwan had included a brief note at the end of Atonement, referring to Andrews”
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The Board of Trustees of the Kenyon Review honoured McEwan with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, writing that "McEwan's stories, novels, and plays are notable for their fierce artistic dramas, exploring
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McEwan was accused of plagiarism; specifically that a passage in Atonement (2001) closely echoed a passage from a memoir, No Time for Romance, published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews
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Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2005).
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Was the first recipient of Dickinson College's Harold and Ethel L
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Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Atonement (2002).
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McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007
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Awarded Shakespeare Prize (1999).
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Awarded Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998).
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McEwan married Annalena McAfee, a journalist and writer who was formerly the editor of The Guardian's Review section
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Awarded Prix Femina étranger (1993).
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“Najprostszym sposobem odzyskania utraconego rodzica jest po prostu samemu nim zostać.”
“Nie wiem na przykład, co stało się z Francuzami. Dali nam oświecenie, encyklopedię, Diderota, Woltera, intelektualne pisarstwo, które teraz zatonęło w powodzi antyracjonalnego, miazmatycznego postmodernizmu, którego osobiście nie znoszę.”
“(...) po osiągnięciu pewnego wieku, kiedy pozostałe do przeżycia lata po raz pierwszy wydają się skończone i człowieka przechodzi pierwszy zimny dreszcz, ktoś, kto umiera, wzbudza większe, bardziej braterskie zainteresowanie.”
“Zdarza się niekiedy, że u tych, którzy roztrząsają krzywdy, chęć rewanżu miesza się, dla nich dogodnie, z poczuciem obowiązku.”
“Uważali się za zbyt wykształconych, by wierzyć w przeznaczenie, lecz mimo to wydawało im się paradoksem, że tak doniosłe spotkanie mogło być dziełem przypadku, tak bardzo zależnym od setek nieistotnych zdarzeń i decyzji. Przerażało ich, że mogło do tego spotkania w ogóle nie dojść.”
“Tak oto można zmienić bieg całego życia – przez zaniechanie.”
“Ile wstydu przysparza czasem ciało, które nie maskuje albo nie potrafi maskować emocji. Kto dla zachowania pozorów nie chciałby zwolnić bicia serca albo opanować rumieńców?”
“Zmiany społeczne nigdy nie zachodzą w jednakowym tempie.”
“I choć myślisz, że cały świat leży u twoich stóp, on może powstać i cię stratować.”
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1983).
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When the BBC suspended production of his play Solid Geometry because of its supposed obscenity
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Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1976).
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Studied at University of East Anglia, Master of Arts (1971).
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Studied at University of Sussex, Bachelor of Arts (1970).
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Born 1948-06-21.
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