Martin Amis

Novelist, Author

1949 –

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Who is Martin Amis?

Martin Louis Amis is an English novelist. His best-known novels are Money and London Fields. He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date. Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Amis's work centers on the apparent excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirizes through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what the New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself went on to heavily influence many successful British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.

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Born
Aug 25, 1949
Swansea
Also known as
  • Martin Louis Amis
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Spouses
Religion
  • Agnosticism
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Exeter College, Oxford
  • Westminster School
  • University of Oxford

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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