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Martin Amis

1949 - 2023

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Sir Martin Louis Amis (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Amis is the 2,203rd most popular writer (down from 649th in 2019), the 1,910th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 488th in 2019) and the 206th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Martin Amis ranks 2,203 out of 7,302. Before him are Izumi Shikibu, Anne Applebaum, Bernardus Silvestris, Michel Leiris, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, and Richard Adams. After him are Abraham ibn Daud, Elena Poniatowska, Wilhelm Raabe, Mahsati, Georg Heym, and Emile Habibi.

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Among people born in 1949, Martin Amis ranks 186. Before him are Trương Tấn Sang, Alice Walton, Ronnie Hellström, Anne Schedeen, Dusty Hill, and Nando Parrado. After him are Judith Resnik, Aurelio De Laurentiis, Jens Böhrnsen, Keith Carradine, Patrick Hernandez, and Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda. Among people deceased in 2023, Martin Amis ranks 139. Before him are Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Philippe Sollers, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Tom Sizemore, Frederic Forrest, and Ruth Fuchs. After him are Lubomír Štrougal, Albert Azaryan, Adolf Scherer, Edward L. G. Bowell, Ken Mattingly, and Rita Lee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Amis ranks 1,910 out of 8,785. Before him are Dorothy Round (1909), Jack Hawkins (1910), Thomas Simpson (1710), Louis Harold Gray (1905), David Bailey (1938), and Richard Adams (1920). After him are Charles Macintosh (1766), Peter Vaughan (1923), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Edward Young (1683), Eleanor of Woodstock (1318), and John Henry Poynting (1852).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Martin Amis ranks 206. Before him are Arthur Young (1741), Richard Aldington (1892), Brian Aldiss (1925), Terry Eagleton (1943), Christina Rossetti (1830), and Richard Adams (1920). After him are Edward Young (1683), John Skelton (1460), Clive Barker (1952), Allen Carr (1934), William Caxton (1422), and Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925).

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