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Ian McEwan

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British author (born 1948)

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Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".

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Ian McEwan
said · 2014
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When a court determines any question with respect to ... the upbringing of a child ... the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration.

Quoted at the front of the book.

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Ian McEwan
said · 2012
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How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?

Page 42.

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Ian McEwan
said · 2010
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Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.

Page 149. (A line from Michael Beard's speech at the Savoy Hotel, London.)

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Awards 19

2024Jean Monnet Prize
2020Goethe Medal
2018honorary doctorate of Carlos III University
2014Bodley Medal
2011Jerusalem Prize
2010Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
2010Helmerich Award
2007Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
2005James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2002National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
1999Shakespeare Prize
1998Booker Prize
1993Prix Femina étranger
1983Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1976Somerset Maugham Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
honorary doctor of the University of Sussex

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About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 78
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31 languages

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