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    Ian McEwan is a renowned British novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly humorous works that accentuate the horror in everyday life through disturbing tales and bizarre characters. His early short story collections and first novel featured grotesque figures in stories about sexual aberration and macabre obsession. While his later novels in the 1980s became less sensationalistic as he started a family, focusing more on family dynamics and political thrillers, his prose style remained refined with an undercurrent of perverse subject matter. McEwan has also written extensively for television, radio, film and opera.

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    Ian McEwan is a renowned British novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly humorous works that accentuate the horror in everyday life through disturbing tales and bizarre characters. His early short story collections and first novel featured grotesque figures in stories about sexual aberration and macabre obsession. While his later novels in the 1980s became less sensationalistic as he started a family, focusing more on family dynamics and political thrillers, his prose style remained refined with an undercurrent of perverse subject matter. McEwan has also written extensively for television, radio, film and opera.

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    Ian McEwan is a renowned British novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly humorous works that accentuate the horror in everyday life through disturbing tales and bizarre characters. His early short story collections and first novel featured grotesque figures in stories about sexual aberration and macabre obsession. While his later novels in the 1980s became less sensationalistic as he started a family, focusing more on family dynamics and political thrillers, his prose style remained refined with an undercurrent of perverse subject matter. McEwan has also written extensively for television, radio, film and opera.

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    McEwan, in full Ian Russell McEwan, British novelist,

    short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained,


    refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark
    humour and perverse subject matter.

    McEwan earned renown for his first two short-story


    collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975; film 1997) and
    In Between the Sheets (1978), both of which feature a
    bizarre cast of grotesques in disturbing tales of sexual
    aberrance, black comedy, and macabre obsession. His first novel, The Cement Garden (1978; film
    1993), traces the incestuous decline of a family of orphaned children. The Comfort of Strangers
    (1981; film 1990) is a nightmarish novel about an English couple in Venice.
    In the 1980s, when McEwan began raising a family, his novels became less insular and
    sensationalistic and more devoted to family dynamics and political intrigue: The Child in Time
    (1987) examines how a kidnapping affects the parents; The Innocent (1990; film 1993) concerns
    international espionage during the Cold War; Black Dogs (1992) tells the story of a husband and wife
    who have lived apart since a honeymoon incident made clear their essential moral antipathy; The
    Daydreamer (1994) explores the imaginary world of a creative 10-
    year-old boy. The novel Amsterdam (1998), a social satire
    influenced by the early works of Evelyn Waugh, won the Booker
    Prize in 1998. Atonement (2001; film 2007) traces over six decades
    the consequences of a lie told in the 1930s. The influence of
    Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is evident in Saturday
    (2005), a vivid depiction of London on February 15, 2003, a day of
    mass demonstrations against the incipient war in Iraq. On Chesil
    Beach (2007) describes the awkwardness felt by two virgins on their
    wedding night. Climate change is the subject of McEwan’s satirical
    novel Solar (2010). Sweet Tooth (2012) is the Cold War-era tale of a
    young woman recruited by MI5 to secretly channel funding to
    writers whose work reflected Western values. The Children Act
    (2014) centres on a judge who must rule on the medical treatment of
    a teenage Jehovah’s Witness whose parents object to him receiving
    a blood transfusion on the basis of their religious beliefs. Drawing
    inspiration from Hamlet, McEwan next wrote Nutshell (2016),
    which is narrated by a fetus whose adulterous mother plots with her lover to kill the baby’s father.
    McEwan also wrote for television, radio, and film, including The Imitation Game (1980), The
    Ploughman’s Lunch (1983), Last Day of Summer (1984), and The Good Son (1993). Several of his
    screenplays were adapted from his novels and short stories. In addition, McEwan wrote librettos for
    a pacifist oratorio, Or Shall We Die? (first performed 1982; published and recorded 1983), and an
    opera, For You (first performed and published 2008), both with composer Michael Berkeley. In 2000
    McEwan was created CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

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