His next novel, Atonement (2001), received considerable acclaim Time magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1998, he won the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam. His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics and adapted into a film in 2004. McEwan has also written two children's books, Rose Blanche (1985) and The Daydreamer (1994).

The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed 'Ian Macabre.' These were followed by T he Child in Time (1987), winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award The Innocent (1990) and Black Dogs (1992). The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his two earliest novels, both of which were adapted into films. His second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets, was published in 1978. He achieved notoriety in 1979 when the BBC suspended production of his play Solid Geometry because of its alleged obscenity.

McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. McEwan was educated at Woolverstone Hall School the University of Sussex, receiving his degree in English literature in 1970 and the University of East Anglia, where he was one of the first graduates of Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson's pioneering creative writing course. His family returned to England when he was twelve. As a result, McEwan spent much of his childhood in East Asia (including Singapore), Germany and North Africa (including Libya), where his father was posted. His father was a working class Scotsman who had worked his way up through the army to the rank of major. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the son of David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet (nee Moore). Ian Russell McEwan is an English novelist.

Education-B.A., University of Sussex M.A.

But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts-brings about a crime that will change all their lives.Īs it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.

Winner, 2001 National Book Critics' Circle Award

Atonement by ian mcewan