Martin Louis Amis ( born August 25, 1949 , Oxford ) is an English prose writer and critic.
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| Date of Birth | August 25, 1949 (aged 70) |
| Place of Birth | Oxford |
| Citizenship |  Great Britain |
| Occupation | prose writer, critic |
| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | Somerset Maugham Award (1974) |
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Biography
Born in the family of the writer Kingsley Amis , was the middle of three children; the older brother was Phillip, and the younger sister was Sally. His parents, Hillie and Kingsley, divorced when he was twelve. After the parents divorced, the children lived with their mother in Spain in Mallorca. His father was then married to the famous English writer Elizabeth Jane Howard . According to friends of the Amis family, it was she who inspired her stepson Martin to seriously engage in literature [1] .
Amis graduated from Exeter College, Oxford. After Oxford, he got a job at the Times Literary Supplement. At the age of 27, he became the literary editor of New Statesman. Amis regularly and successfully collaborated with prestigious literary magazines Sunday Telegraph, Independent, London Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Atlantic, Esquire and New Yorker.
Bibliography
- 1973 - Notes on Rachel ( The Rachel Papers )
- 1975 - Dead Babies
- 1978 - Success
- 1981 - Other people: A mysterious story ( Eng. Other People: A Mystery Story )
- 1982 - Invasion of the Space Invaders
- 1985 - Money: A Suicide Note ( English: Money: A Suicide Note )
- 1986 - Hell for the demented and other trips to America ( English The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America )
- 1987 - Einstein's Monsters
- 1989 - London Fields
- 1989 - Night Train
- 1991 - Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence
- 1995 - Information
- 1999 - Heavy Water and Other Stories
- 2010 - The Pregnant Widow
- 2012 - Lionel Asbo: State of England ( English Lionel Asbo: State of England )
- 2014 - The Zone of Interest
Journalism
- 2002 - Koba the Terrible ( English Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million )
Rewards
- 1974 - Somerset Maugham Award for "Rachel Papers"
Notes
Links
- Official website
- A complete bibliography of Martin Amis on the Fantasy Lab website
- Amis, Martin // Encyclopedia " Around the World ."
- Martin EMIS: The End of the Age of Innocence
- "I, as a writer, understand Stalin." Interview with British classic Martin Amis