Martin Amis

Writing

Born: 1949-08-25
Died: 2023-05-19
From: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.4

Biography

Sir Martin Louis Amis FRSL (August 25, 1949 – May 19, 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is 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).

Awards & Nominations5 won · 2 nominated

Nominated

Booker Prize

Yellow Dog

2003
🏆 Won

National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

The War Against Cliché

2001
🏆 Won

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

2000
Nominated

Booker Prize

Time's Arrow

1991
🏆 Won

Best of Young British Novelists

1983
🏆 Won

Somerset Maugham Award

1974
🏆 Won

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature