Taylor, David John. “Why these Men Killed the Hampstead Novel”. The Independent on Sunday, 29 Dec. 2002, p. Life Etc. 8.
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Ian McEwan
Standard Name: McEwan, Ian
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Zadie Smith | Through a Cambridge friend ZS
met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan
and Martin Amis
. It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my... |
| Literary responses | Kamila Shamsie | The Independent juxtaposed Burnt Shadows with other literary attempts to capture post-9/11 reality, noting that works such as Don DeLillo
's Falling Man, Mohsin Hamid
's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Ian McEwan
's... |
| Occupation | Kamila Shamsie | KS
was assigned to read and assess the Man Booker prize-winning works from the 1990s, including Arundhati Roy
's The God of Small Things and Ian McEwan
's Amsterdam, and nominate one for inclusion... |
| Reception | A. S. Byatt | David Jays
, in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB
, Zadie Smith
, A. L. Kennedy
, Sarah Waters
... |
| Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Timeline
Spring 1983: Granta magazine's first listing of twenty...
Writing climate item
Spring 1983
Granta magazine's first listing of twenty Best of Young British Novelists included the names of six women: Pat Barker
, Ursula Bentley
, Buchi Emecheta
, Maggie Gee
, Lisa St Auban de Teran
, and Rose Tremain
.
Texts
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