Martin Amis (1949–2023)
Autor(a) de Money: A Suicide Note
About the Author
Martin Amis, son of the novelist Kingsley Amis, was born August 25, 1949. His childhood was spent traveling with his famous father. From 1969 to 1971 he attended Exeter College at Oxford University. After graduating, he worked for the Times Literary Supplement and later as special writer for the mostrar mais Observer. Amis published his first novel, The Rachel Papers, in 1973, which received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1974. Other titles include Dead Babies (1976), Other People: A Mystery Story (1981); London Fields (1989), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1997). Martin Amis has been called the voice of his generation. His novels are controversial, often satiric and dark, concentrating on urban low life. His style has been compared to that of Graham Greene, Philip Larkin and Saul Bellow, among others. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Obras de Martin Amis
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 (2017) 180 cópias
Career Move 6 cópias
Amis Martin 1 exemplar(es)
Lionel Asbo: state of England 1 exemplar(es)
Author, Author [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Lionel Asbo 1 exemplar(es)
Straight Fiction – Etero Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Let Me Count the Times [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Northanger Abbey the Screenplay [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Oktober 1 exemplar(es)
The Janitor on Mars [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Journeys 1 exemplar(es)
Vernon. Racconto 1 exemplar(es)
Denton's Death 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris (2011) — Cover photo, algumas edições — 791 cópias
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuinte — 706 cópias
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contribuinte — 364 cópias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 345 cópias
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contribuinte — 216 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Amis, Martin Louis
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-08-25
- Data de falecimento
- 2023-05-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Lake Worth, Florida, USA
- Causa da morte
- esophageal cancer
- Locais de residência
- Cardiff, Wales
Uruguay
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Spain
London, England, UK - Educação
- Oxford University (BA|1971|Exeter College | English)
- Ocupação
- literary editor
editorial assistant
journalist
novelist - Relacionamentos
- Amis, Kingsley (father)
- Organizações
- The New Statesman
Times Literary Supplement - Premiações
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1983)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2000)
Somerset Maugham Award (1974) - Agente
- Andrew Wylie (The Wylie Agency)
Membros
Discussions
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE MAY 2015 - MARGARET DRABBLE AND MARTIN AMIS em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Junho 2015)
Resenhas
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Arctic novels (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 48
- Also by
- 35
- Membros
- 26,966
- Popularidade
- #766
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 451
- ISBNs
- 687
- Idiomas
- 23
- Favorito
- 88