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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan. Born in 1948 in Aldershot Spent his childhood abroad according to where his father was posted by the army

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Ian McEwan

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  1. Ian McEwan

  2. Born in 1948 in Aldershot • Spent his childhood abroad according to where his father was posted by the army • Belongs to the generation that grew up immediately after WWII and it was made part of his life with the stories his father told him of his involvement in it and with the fact that his babysitters were corporals.

  3. Woolverstone Hall, Suffolk, 1959-1966 (aged 11-18)

  4. A state boarding school in Suffolk (to the north-east of London) • A place where “working-class children from central London were taught alongside those who, like himself, came from military families” (Matthew Kibble in Literature Online) • A former school of writers such as Rudyard Kipling • McEwan is saying as he looks back at himself at this time as being “sort of depressed” and “more or less obedient” to the requirements of studying (John Mullan in Profile)

  5. His parents were 2,000 miles away in North Africa at the time • McEwan says that his early fiction showed a ”bold” and perhaps too violent side that, he implies, was an outlet for the more introverted aspect of his personality in these young days (Mullan, 2007)

  6. Sussex University, 1967-1970 (aged 19- 22) • Studied English and French • Sees his parents’ generation as a “wasted” one, in that although his father was intelligent he was inevitably unable to go to university because of the need to earn a living (Deveney, 2005)

  7. SUSSEX UNIVERSITY

  8. The University of East Anglia, Norwich1970-1971, (aged 22-23) • MA in Modern Fiction and Creative Writing • The decision to take the then new MA appears to be one of the pivotal moments • This MA program was later recognized a influential by Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Enright and Tracy Chevalier • The MA was founded by Prof. Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson

  9. The University of East Anglia, Norwich

  10. In 1972 McEwan joined the hippie trail to Afghanistan

  11. In 1974 (at the age of 26), he moved to Stockwell from Norwich and became involve in the New Review, which became a magnet for other emerging writers such as Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Craig Raine (Dominic Head)

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