Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan was born in 1948 and studied at the Universities of Sussex and East Anglia. He published his first collection of short stories, titled "First Love, Last Rites," in 1975, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, followed by his second collection, "Between the Sheets," in 1977. In 1987, he won the Whitbread Award (and the Prix Femina Étranger six years later) for his novel "The Child in Time." He has written numerous novels and screenplays for film. Three of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ("Enduring Love," "Amsterdam," "Atonement"). He was awarded the prize in 1998 for "Amsterdam." "Atonement" (2002) also received the following awards: W.H. Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). For the novel "Saturday," he was honored with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2006.