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 had been listed for the Booker Prize twice (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.
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25 August 1949 Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales
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Died |
24 June 2010 (aged 60)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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