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Biography
Sir Martin Louis Amis 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. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Awards & recognition
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism · 2001
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize · 2000
- Best of Young British Novelists · 1983
- Somerset Maugham Award · 1974
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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- Booker Prize · 2003 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 1991 · nominated
Filmography9 titles
The Zone of Interest
2023In Memory Of, Novel
2023In Memory Of, Novel
The Meaning of Hitler
2021as Self
2021as Self
Saturn 3
1980Screenplay
1980Screenplay
Good Posture
2019as Self
2019as Self
Out of Blue
2019Novel
2019Novel
London Fields
2018as Julian Neat
2018as Julian Neat
The Rachel Papers
1989Novel
1989Novel
Money
2010Original Story
2010Original Story
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
2017as Self - Writer
2017as Self - Writer