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AUTHOR

Ian McEwan, born in Great Britain in 1948, grew up in Singapore and Libya, among other places, due to the work of his father, a professional soldier.

He studied English and French literature and taught at university. Since the success of the short story collection First Love, Last Rites (1975), he has lived as a freelance writer.

Ian McEwan is one of today's most renowned contemporary writers and has been honoured with numerous literary awards, including the Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Twelve of his stories have been made into films, including ‘Apology’ (2007), which received seven Oscar nominations. In 2000, Ian McEwan was awarded the British knighthood ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)’. In 2011, he received the ‘Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society’.

He has also received important prizes in German-speaking countries, such as the Alfred Toepfer Foundation's Shakespeare Prize for his complete works (1999) and the German Book Prize (2003). More than twenty of his works have been published in German by Diogenes Verlag.Cathy Marston is currently directing and choreographing the ballet ‘Atonement’ at Zurich Opera House, based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan.Ian McEwan is married to the journalist Annalena McAfee and lives in London. He has two sons with his first wife Penny Allen.

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