Brittiske författaren Martin Amis död – blev 73 år
Den brittiske författaren Martin Amis dog i sitt hem i Florida under fredagen. Det bekräftar hans fru för New York Times.
TT skriver att Amis i Storbritannien såg som en av sin generations starkaste litterära röster. Hans två mest kända verk blev ”Pengar” och ”Kvinna söker sin mördare”, som skildrade livet under Margaret Thatcher på 1980-talet.
Filmatiseringen av hans roman ”The zone of interest” hade premiär på filmfestivalen i Cannes på fredagen och skildrar grymheterna i koncentrationslägret i Auschwitz.
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Martin Amis
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Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He was 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 served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the fifty 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 as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself has influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
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