About Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) 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". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1997 novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize. His next novel, Atonement (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. He received the 2011 Jerusalem Prize. His later novels have included The Children Act, Nutshell, and Machines Like Me. His latest novel, about climate change, is What We Can Know. McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.
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