Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished contemporary British writers. His novels and stories have won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Prize, and the Booker Prize. His latest book, Atonement, won the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award, one of the most prestigious literary honors in the United States.

McEwan says of writing:

"The joy is in the surprise. It can be as small as a felicitous coupling of noun and adjective . . . . A writer whose morning is going well, whose sentences are forming well, is experiencing a calm and private joy. This joy itself then liberates a richness of thought that can prompt new surprises. Writers crave these moments, these sessions."
    -- Paris Review interview

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