Ian McEwan
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Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his first two novels, and earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1997, he published Enduring Love, which was made into a film. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). In 2001, he published Atonement, which was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. This was followed by Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010), and Sweet Tooth (2012). In 2011, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize.
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Novels
- The Cement Garden (1978)
- The Comfort of Strangers (1981)
- The Child in Time (1987)
- The Innocent (1990)
- Black Dogs (1992)
- Enduring Love (1997)
- Amsterdam (1998)
- Atonement (2001)
- Saturday (2005)
- On Chesil Beach (2007)
- Solar (2010)
- Sweet Tooth (2012)
- The Children Act (2014)
Short story collections
- First Love, Last Rites (1975)
- In Between the Sheets (1978)
- The Short Stories (1995)
Children's fiction
- Rose Blanche (1985)
- The Daydreamer (1994)
Plays
- The Imitation Game (1981)
Screenplays
- Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration (1976)
- The Ploughman's Lunch (1985)
- Sour Sweet (1989)
- The Good Son (1993)
Oratorio
- Or Shall We Die? (1983)
Libretto
- For You (2008)
Film adaptations
- Last Day of Summer (1984)
- The Cement Garden (1993)
- The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
- The Innocent (1993)
- Solid Geometry (2002)
- Enduring Love (2004)
- Atonement (2007)
- Sweet Tooth (in development)