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 where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. 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 has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. 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. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Readers may know McEwan's work through these and other books, or more recently through his novel, Atonement, which was made into a major motion picture.Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
The story revolves around the devastating effects of the loss of a child through child abduction. The Child in Time (1987) won the Whitbread Novel Award and marked a new confidence in McEwan's writing. The Cement Garden was followed by The Comfort of Strangers (1981), set in Venice, a tale of fantasy, violence, and obsession. Soon, an incestuous relationship develops between the two oldest children as they seek to emulate their parents roles.
To avoid being taken into custody, they bury their mother in the cement of the basement and attempt to carry on life as normally as possible. McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphaned children living alone after the death of both parents. These stories-claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and disjointed family life-were remarkable for their formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. A second volume of his work appeared in 1978. First Love, Last Rites was McEwan's first published book and is a collection of short stories that in 1976 won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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