Martin Amis
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Martin Amis at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
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Martin Louis Amis 25 August 1949 Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom |
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| Residence | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford | ||
| Notable work | The Rachel Papers (1973), Money (1984), London Fields (1989) | ||
| Spouse(s) | Antonia Phillips (1984–1993); Isabel Fonseca (1996–present) | ||
| Children | Delilah (1976), Louis (1985), Jacob (1986), Fernanda (1996), Clio (1999) | ||
| Parent(s) | Kingsley Amis (father), Hilary Ann Bardwell (mother) | ||
| Relatives | Philip Amis (brother), Sally Amis (sister) | ||
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Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (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 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Amis's work centres on the excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what the New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself has gone on to influence many successful British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
Amis was born in Swansea, Wales. His father, noted English novelist Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; his mother, Hilary "Hilly" Bardwell, was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant. He has an older brother, Philip; his younger sister, Sally, died in 2000. His parents divorced when he was twelve.
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