For the landscape and documentary photographer, see Martin Amis (photographer).
Sir
Martin Amis
FRSL
Amis in 2014
Born
Martin Louis Amis (1949-08-25)25 August 1949 Oxford, England
Died
19 May 2023(2023-05-19) (aged 73) Lake Worth Beach, Florida, US
Pen name
Henry Tilney
Alma mater
Exeter College, Oxford
Notable works
The Rachel Papers (1973)
Money (1984)
London Fields (1989)
Notable awards
Knight Bachelor 2023
Spouse
Antonia Phillips
(m. 1984; div. 1993)
Isabel Fonseca
(m. 1996)
Children
5
Parents
Kingsley Amis
Hilary Kilmarnock
Relatives
Sally Amis (sister)
Martin Amis's voice
Recorded April 2010 from the BBC Radio 3 programme Night Waves
Sir Martin Louis AmisFRSL[1] (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. 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). Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011.[2] In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.[3]
Amis's work centres on the excesses of "late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness".[4] He was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis. Amis influenced many British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.[5]
A life-long smoker, Amis died from oesophageal cancer at his house in the US state of Florida in 2023.[6]The New York Times wrote after his death: "To come of reading age in the last three decades of the 20th century – from the oil embargo through the fall of the Berlin Wall, all the way to 9/11 – was to live, it now seems clear, in the Amis Era."[7]
^"Martin Amis". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
^Page, Benedicte (26 January 2011). "Colm Tóibín takes over teaching job from Martin Amis". The Guardian. London.
^"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. 5 January 2008. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^Stout, Mira. "Martin Amis: Down London's mean streets", The New York Times, 4 February 1990.
^"Martin Amis", The Guardian, 22 July 2008.
^"Master stylist Martin Amis was the Mick Jagger of the literary world". The Independent. 21 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^Scott, A.O. (22 May 2023). "Good Night, Sweet Prince". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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