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Martin Amis

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British novelist (1949-2023)

United KingdomWritersLived 1949 to 2023 · aged 73
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Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize.

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2001National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
2000James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1983Best of Young British Novelists
1974Somerset Maugham Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

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United Kingdom
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Lived 1949 to 2023 · aged 73
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