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Martin Amis (1949–2023) was a British male author. His bibliography includes works such as *The History of Tom Jones / The Rachel Papers*, *Getting It On*, *American wild*, *Ḥets ha-zeman*, and *Travelling Hopefully*. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Amis had five children. His writing has been associated with the view that style is not neutral and gives moral directions, as well as the observation that being inoffensive and being offended are twin addictions of the culture.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Place of death
- Lake Worth Beach
- Spouse
- Isabel Fonseca
- Father
- Kingsley Amis
- Employer
- University of Manchester
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- English language
- Noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- Field of work
- creative writing
- Genre
- essay
- Official website
- www.martinamisweb.com
- Image
- Martin amis 2014.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- Martin Amis
- date of birth
- 1949-08-25
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- English people
- contributed to creative work
- The New Yorker
- writing language
- English language
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- date of death
- 2023-05-19
- medical condition
- esophageal cancer
- P12674
- Ikongwe
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- name in native language
- Martin Amis
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- 401 Ottilia
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) 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 (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). 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.
Amis's work centres on the excesses of late capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness.” He was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis. Amis influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
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