Ian McEwan Biography

Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot England. He studied at the University of Sussex where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002) National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003) Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003) and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards. McEwan has been named the Reader's Digest Author of the Year for 2008 the 2010 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award and in 2011 was awarded the Jerusalem Prize.
McEwan lives in London. His most recent novel is The Children Act.

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