Ian McEwan, Esq, CBE

Career: author; began writing 1970; Shakespeare Prize 1999; Hon DLitt: Univ of Sussex 1989, UEA 1993, Univ of London 1998; FRSL 1982

Books and Publications: First Love, Last Rites (1975), In Between The Sheets (1978), The Cement Garden (1978), The Comfort of Strangers (1981), The Imitation Game (1981), Or Shall We Die? (1983), The Ploughman's Lunch (1985), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Black Dogs (shortlisted Booker Prize, 1992), The Daydreamer (1994), Enduring Love (1997, shortlisted Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 1997, shortlisted Booker Prize 1998), Amsterdam (1998, winner Booker Prize 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), Solar (2010, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2010); Film The Ploughman's Lunch (1983), Last Day of Summer (1984), Sour Sweet (1989), The Innocent (dir by John Schlesinger, 1993), The Good Son (1993)