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Author Description 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.<br /><br />McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3526.First_Love__Last_Rites" title="First Love, Last Rites" rel="nofollow noopener">First Love, Last Rites</a>; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6869.The_Child_in_Time" title="The Child in Time" rel="nofollow noopener">The Child in Time</a>; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6862.Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam" rel="nofollow noopener">Amsterdam</a> in 1998. His novel <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6867.Atonement" title="Atonement" rel="nofollow noopener">Atonement</a> 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 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5015.Saturday" title="Saturday" rel="nofollow noopener">Saturday</a> and his novel <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815309.On_Chesil_Beach" title="On Chesil Beach" rel="nofollow noopener">On Chesil Beach</a> 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.<br /><br />McEwan lives in London.

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