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Ian McEwan is a celebrated British novelist and writer born in 1948 who is known for exploring complex psychological and moral themes in his fiction. His works have made him one of the most important contemporary voices in English literature.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 June 1948
- Works
- 203
Top works
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
- Kelavim sheḥorim
- כלבים שחורים
- טובת הילד
- סולאר
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Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Postcards from the 48%2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,498
- Total plays
- 43,901
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,573x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,569x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
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Quotes
- “Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a God. … It's human, universal, [it's] being able to think our way into the minds of others. As I said at the time, what those holy fools clearly lacked, or clearly were able to deny themselves, was the ability to enter into the minds of the people they were being so cruel to. Amongst their crimes was a failure of the imagination, of the moral imagination.”
- “I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.”
- “He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things away, it amused him when the unexpected happened, benevolent coincidences used to bear him along. When had all that stopped?”
- “You want a picture of futility? It's a tunnel in the desert, from nowhere to nowhere, four hundred and fifty feet long.”
- “Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your unconscious choice of mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”
- “We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) 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".
McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1997 novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize.
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