We don’t learn an awful lot about Lane, beyond the fact that she entertained a lot of men, and died of an unspecified madness-inducing illness. They meet at the funeral of Molly Lane, and are among at least four of her former lovers at said event. A large number of his novels and stories have been filmed (including three in one year as recently as 2017)- though, perhaps tellingly, not this one.Īmsterdam is a short novel focusing on two old and extremely posh friends: Vernon Halliday, newspaper editor of the tabloidy fabrication The Judge, and Clive Linley, who is a very very serious composer. In total he has now been nominated a total of six times, including for 2001's Atonement, which was made into a hit film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
Some have suggested that Amsterdam's victory was in large part an apology for that omission. He began as the writer of gothic short stories, and the subject matter of his first novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) led to him being nicknamed "Ian Macabre." Prior to 1998 he had been nominated twice for the Prize, for the aforementioned Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs (1992), though controversially not for 1997's Enduring Love, a critical hit. He studied English at the University of Sussex and the the University of East Anglia. As a result of this, McEwan spent much of his childhood outside England (including Singapore, Germany and Libya), returning when he was 12. His father was a working class Scotsman who worked his way up through the army to the rank of major. Ian McEwan (1948- active 1975-) born Aldershot, England.
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