Ian McEwan

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Career

McEwan's first published work, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. Solid Geometry, his play, came to fame in 1979, when the BBC suspended its production due to its ostensible obscenity. In Between the Sheets, his second collection of short stories, was published in 1978. Both The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his two earliest books, were turned into films. Due to the artistry of his drawings, he was dubbed "Ian Macabre." These were followed by Rose Blanche (1985), his first book for children, and The Child in Time (1987), the winner of the Whitbread Novel Award in 1987.

McEwan began to move away from the older, more settling content of his earlier career into a style that would see him gain greater readership and broad critical acclaim. With the release of The Innocent (1990) and Black Dogs (1992), a quasi-companion book focusing on the post-Cold War Europe and the end of the Cold War, a new phase began. With his second book for children, The Daydreamer (1994), McEwan followed these works.

Enduring Love, a 1997 book about a science writer's friendship with a stalker, was well-reced by critics, but it was not shortlisted for the Booker Award. In 2004, it was turned into a film. He received the Booker Prize in Amsterdam in 1998. Atonement (2001), his next book, received acclaim; Time magazine named it the best book of 2002; and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas around the world in 2007. His next job, which is scheduled for a Friday, (2005), follows an eventful day in the life of a respected neurosurgeon. For 2005, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize was awarded on Saturday. On Chesil Beach (2007) was nominated for the 2007 Man Booker Award and was turned into a film starring Saoirse Ronan in 2017, for which McEwan wrote the screenplay. McEwan has written a number of scripts, a stage play, children's fiction, and an oratorio and a libretto titled For You, with music arranged by Michael Berkeley.

McEwan was accused of plagiarism in 2006, but specifically that a passage in Atonement (2001) closely matched a passage in a memoir titled "No Time for Romance," written in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews. McEwan admitted to using the book as a source for his research. Among other things, McEwan included a brief note at the end of Atonement referring to Andrews' autobiography. The incident triggered critical debate surrounding his debut novel The Cement Garden, which closely resembled some of those of Our Mother's House, a 1963 book by British author Julian Gloag that had also been turned into a film. McEwan denied charges of plagiarism, arguing that he was unaware of the previous work. McEwan, a month after Andrews' death, professed innocence of plagiarism while admitting to the author of No Time for Romance, writing in The Guardian in November 2006. Several writers attacked him, including John Updike, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Keneally, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and Thomas Pynchon.

Solar, McEwan's first book of the 2010s, was published by Jonathan Cape and Doubleday in March 2010. McEwan gave a surprise reading of this work-in-progress in June 2008 at the Hay Festival. "A scientist who wants to save the earth" from climate change's threat, with inspiration for the book from a Cape Farewell expedition McEwan's 2005 voyage in which "artists and scientists..." spent several weeks on board a ship near the north pole debating environmental issues. Michael Beard, the novel's protagonist, was given a Nobel Prize for his contributions to physics, but he has discovered that winning the coveted award has interfered with his work," McEwan said. The book was not a comedic film, according to him, "I hate comic books; it's like being wrestled to the ground and being tickled, not being compelled to laugh." Rather, it had extended comic stretches.

Solar was followed by McEwan's twelfth book, Sweet Tooth, a semi-fictional historical novel set in the 1970s, which was published in late August 2012. McEwan said in an interview with The Scotsman newspaper that coincided with publication that the inspiration for writing Sweet Tooth had been "[...] a way in which I could write a disguised autobiography." In an interview with Working Title Films in November 2012, he revealed that the film rights to Sweet Tooth had been acquired by Working Title Films, the company that had adapted Atonement as a film. The Children Act, which enraged High Court judges, UK family law, and the right to die followed Sweet Tooth two years ago.

Nutshell, McEwan's 2016 book The Children Act, was published two years after his earlier book Nutshell, a short novel closer in style and tone to his earlier work. My Purple Scented Novella, McEwan's next book, was published in The New Yorker in 2016, as part of a short story. This short film was released in June 2018 to celebrate McEwan's 70th birthday.

McEwan published Machines Like Me, an alternate history/science fiction book that was sent to Nutshell in April 2019. It concerns artificial intelligence and an alternate history in which Great Britain loses the Falklands War and the Labour Party, led by Tony Benn, eventually wins the 1989 General Election. The Cockroach, McEwan's latest surprise sequel to a quick surprise novella published in September.

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