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Martin Amis
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011.…
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culture · English novelist (1949–2023) · novelist · science fiction writer · short story writer · university teacher · memoirist · writer · screenwriter · journalist · essayist · literary critic · also Martin Amis, Amis
Born 25 August 1949 · Died 19 May 2023 · Q310176
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2026· 7 entries
“in trouble with the feminists”
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“there exists on our planet a kind of human being who will become a Muslim in order to pursue suicide-mass murder”
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“s eventual girlfriend, the ambitious glamour model and poet”
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“I may be acerbic in how I write but ... I would find it very difficult to say cruel things to [students] in such a vulnerable position. I imagine I”
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“not a frowning examination of England”
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“The world is like a human being. And there”
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: My dad Martin Amis loved a gangster film – but hated my plays | Fernanda Amis
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The Guardian: ‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor
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The Guardian: Martin Amis memorial to be held in London
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2023· 22 entries
The Guardian: Martin Amis remembered by John Banville
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The Guardian: ‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis
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The Guardian: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Anna Wintour honoured in king’s birthday list
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The Guardian: Amis, Hitchens and Larkin: bad behaviour and a messy personal life were once a gift for authors. Not any more | Martha Gill
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The American Conservative: Martin Amis and Apocalypse
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NPR: Remembering Martin Amis, author of the London Trilogy novels
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The New York Times: Remembering Martin Amis
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New Republic: Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke
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Yahoo: Martin Amis, acclaimed British novelist and London scenester of ‘80s and ‘90s, dies at 73
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NPR: Martin Amis, British author of era-defining novels, dies at 73
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Died 2023-05-19.
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“America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.”
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“…Za każdym razem, kiedy Lionel ciskał się po nocy (jakby wracał do pustego domu), Des myślał o tym, jakie to musi być kojące (jeśli w ogóle można wyobrazić sobie coś takiego) – nie posiadać świadomości istnienia innych ludzi.”
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“I jego serce, kiedy przyszła kolej na nie, rozjarzyło się niczym jakiś wewnętrzny klimaks przebiegający przez pierś do gardła. Pocałował ją w szyję. Dotknęła jego czoła. Na stole stał słoik z dżemem truskawkowym z łyżeczką w środku.”
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“Babcia powiedziała, że smutek jest jak morze; trzeba ujeżdżać fale.”
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“Telewizja kretynizuje mnie – czuję to wyraźnie.”
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“[I am] secular to the bones, but not an atheist.”
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“Picie i palenie nie pochłaniają, niestety, całkowicie i niepodzielnie uwagi. To jedyna wada, jaką mógłbym przypisać tym wzniosłym zajęciom.”
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“Mam pewien domysł dotyczący trzepania konia, a w każdym razie wyczerpującej częstotliwości tego aktu. Potrzebuję ludzkiego uczucia. A ponieważ nie mam nikogo w pobliżu, dostarczam sobie uczucia sam.”
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“Może dlatego rozmyśla się o przyjaciółkach swojej dziewczyny, bo mają z nią wiele wspólnego. Bardzo są do niej podobne, z pewną drobną różnicą: nie łazisz z nimi na okrągło do łóżka. W wyrku dadzą ci to, czego nie da ci nigdy własne dziewczę: odmianę od własnego dziewczęcia.”
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“Chcę wyrwać się z jej szponów – wyrwać się z tego świata forsy – tylko gdzie? Gdzie? Chcę przedostać się do świata myśli, myśli i fascynacji. Lecz właśnie, jak się tam dostać? Powiedzcie mi – proszę. Samemu nie dam rady. Po prostu nie znam drogi.”
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“Jest tylko jeden sposób, żeby nauczyć się skutecznie walczyć: trzeba to robić.”
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2016· 1 entry
“s decision to leave the European Union was a”
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2015· 1 entry
Amis criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an article for The Sunday Times, describing him as "humourless" and "under-educated"
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2014· 1 entry
“I think of writing as more mysterious as I get older, not less mysterious. The whole process is very weird ... It is very spooky.”
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2012· 2 entries
Amis wrote in The New Republic that he was "moving house" from Camden Town in London to Cobble Hill
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Amis published Lionel Asbo: State of England
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2011· 1 entry
Said that unless he sustained a brain injury, it was unlikely he would write a children's book: "The idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is free
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2010· 4 entries
Amis said: "I'm an agnostic, which is the only rational position
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Martin Amis was named GQ writer of the year
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With his comments regarding euthanasia during an interview, when he said that he thought Britain faced a "civil war" between the young and the elderly in society within 10 or 15 years, and called for public euthanasia "b
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After a period of writing, rewriting, editing, and revision dating back to 2003, "by far the longest writing-time of all [his] books", Amis published The Pregnant Widow, a long novel concerned with the sexual revolution
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2009· 1 entry
And two of Amis's children, his son Louis and his daughter Fernanda, have also been published in Standpoint magazine and The Guardian, respectively
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2008· 3 entries
The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945
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Amis did not acknowledge the child as his own until 2008.
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Amis made the "terrible decision" to abandon his first version and a much-different Pregnant Widow was not published until 2010
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2006· 2 entries
“agnostic is the only respectable position, simply because our ignorance of the universe is so vast”
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Amis said that "agnostic is the only respectable position, simply because our ignorance of the universe is so vast" that atheism is "premature"
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2003· 1 entry
Amis published Yellow Dog, his first novel in six years
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2002· 2 entries
Amis published Koba the Dread, a devastating history of the crimes of Stalin and the denial that they received from many writers and academics in the West
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“The voice of the lonely crowd”
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for The War Against Cliché (2001).
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2000).
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Amis published the memoir Experience, largely concerned with the relationship between the author and his father, the novelist Kingsley Amis
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Which Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw described as "boring, embarrassing, nasty and stupid – and not in a good way"
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1997· 1 entry
“Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin”
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1995· 1 entry
The Pregnant Widow was met by searing criticism, accusations of sexism, and guessing the real-world identity of its characters
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1991· 1 entry
For Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog)
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1989· 1 entry
Because two panel members, Maggie Gee and Helen McNeil, disliked Amis's treatment of his female characters
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1988· 1 entry
“Phantom of the Opera: The Republicans in 1988”
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1985· 1 entry
Bellow died in 2005, and Hitch died in 2011, and that gives me a theme, death, and it gives me a bit more freedom, and fiction is freedom
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Best of Young British Novelists (1983).
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1974).
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By his own account, Amis had a "brief affair" with Lamorna Seale, who was married to the journalist and author Patrick Seale, who gave birth to his daughter, Delilah, in 1976
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1971· 1 entry
Amis wrote reviews of science-fiction novels under the nom de plume "Henry Tilney" (a nod to Austen) in a column for The Observer
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1970· 2 entries
Looking at the effect of the sexual revolution on personal relationships
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“something was changing in the world of men and women”
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1965· 1 entry
At the age of 15, Amis played John Thornton in the film version of Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-08-25.
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1948· 1 entry
In Oxford and divorced when Amis was 12 years old; following the separation, Hilly and the children decamped to Mallorca, Spain, where they stayed for a while with Robert Graves
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