72-406: Enduring Love is a 1997 novel by British writer Ian McEwan . The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate their union with a picnic. Joe Rose, aged 47, and his long-term partner Clarissa Mellon are about to open a bottle of wine when a cry interrupts them. A helium balloon , with
144-569: A London conference on Brexit, apparently referring to what he believed to be the older demographic of leave voters, McEwan stated that "one and a half million oldsters freshly in their graves" would result in a putative second referendum returning a Remain outcome. McEwan lives in London, and has been married twice. His first marriage was to Penny Allen, an astrologer and alternative practitioner, with whom he had two sons. The marriage ended in 1995. Two years later in 1997, McEwan married Annalena McAfee,
216-572: A case study identical to the one around which the narrative is based. The appendix is an invention of McEwan, with its authors – Wenn and Camia – being an anagram of his name. Although fictional, some reviewers took the document to be a factual case, with a review in The New York Times criticizing McEwan for having "simply stuck too close to the facts". McEwan later submitted the paper to the British Journal of Psychiatry under
288-449: A disorder that causes the sufferer to believe that someone is in love with him or her. Delusional and dangerous, Jed gradually wreaks havoc in Joe's life, testing the limits of his beloved rationalism, threatening Clarissa's love for him, and driving him to frustration. Joe goes to meet Jean Logan (John Logan's wife) at her Oxford home. Jean Logan does not want to hear about how her husband was
360-572: A documentary about Queen Elizabeth II , was released in 2022 for her Platinum Jubilee . Michell was married to the actress Kate Buffery and they had two children: Rosanna Michell who became a theatrical agent and Harry Michell, writer, director, and actor. After his divorce from Buffery, he married Anna Maxwell Martin . They had two daughters, Maggie and Nancy. Maxwell Martin confirmed in 2020 that she and Michell had separated. Roger Michell died in Hertfordshire on 22 September 2021, at
432-589: A film in 2004. In 1998, he won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam . His next novel, Atonement (2001), received considerable acclaim; Time magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, the critically acclaimed film Atonement , directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas worldwide. His next work, Saturday (2005), follows an especially eventful day in
504-479: A hero, but Joe tells her that her husband was a brave man acting out a fatherly instinct to protect a vulnerable child. Mrs Logan hands Joe a bag which holds a picnic, and then hands him a scarf smelling of rose-water, and asks Joe how many doors were open on Logan's car. She accuses her dead husband of having an affair with another woman and asks Joe to phone other people who were present at the accident to ascertain if they had seen anyone with Logan. She says her husband
576-495: A journalist and writer who was formerly the editor of The Guardian ' s Review section. In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007. The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharp, was born six years earlier than McEwan when their mother was married to a different man. Sharp has the same mother and father as McEwan but
648-614: A libretto titled For You with music composed by Michael Berkeley . In 2006, McEwan was accused of plagiarism; specifically that a passage in Atonement (2001) closely echoed a passage from a memoir, No Time for Romance , published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews . McEwan acknowledged using the book as a source for his work. McEwan had included a brief note at the end of Atonement , referring to Andrews's autobiography, among several other works. The incident recalled critical controversy over his debut novel The Cement Garden , key elements of
720-407: A phone call from Jed Parry, who is at Joe's home with Clarissa. Upon arriving at his apartment, Joe sees Jed sitting on the sofa with Clarissa. Jed then asks for Joe's forgiveness, before taking out a knife and pointing it at his own neck. To prevent Jed from killing himself, Joe shoots him in the arm. Joe and Clarissa go to meet Mrs Logan. They take her and her two infant children on a picnic next to
792-439: A plebiscite of dubious purpose and unacknowledged status. From our agriculture to our science and our universities, from our law to our international relations to our commerce and trade and politics, and who and what we are in the world – all is up for a curious, unequal renegotiation with our European neighbours". McEwan's piece appeared to conclude with a sense of bewilderment and unease at how events were panning out, anticipating
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#1732790110133864-558: A quasi-companion piece reflecting on the aftermath of the Nazi era in Europe and the end of the Cold War. McEwan followed these works with his second book for children, The Daydreamer (1994). His 1997 novel, Enduring Love , about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize . It was adapted into
936-514: A return to literary fiction with The Child in Time (1987), winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award . After The Child in Time , McEwan began to move away from the darker, more unsettling material of his earlier career and towards the style that would see him reach a wider readership and gain significant critical acclaim. This new phase began with the publication of the mid- Cold War espionage drama The Innocent (1990), and Black Dogs (1992),
1008-421: A river, to which they have invited the woman her husband was suspected of having an affair with. It turns out that on the day of the balloon accident the young woman had been with a university lecturer, thirty years her senior, with whom she was having a secret relationship; Dr Logan had simply offered them both a ride after the lecturer's car had broken down. The novel ends with the two Logan children and Joe beside
1080-468: A ship near the north pole discussing environmental concerns". McEwan observed: "The novel's protagonist Michael Beard has been awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work on physics, and has discovered that winning the coveted prize has interfered with his work." He said that the work was not a comedy: "I hate comic novels; it's like being wrestled to the ground and being tickled, being forced to laugh", instead, that it had extended comic stretches. Solar
1152-526: A society that he "abhorred". His comments appeared in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera to defend fellow writer Martin Amis against allegations of racism. McEwan, an atheist , said that certain streams of Christianity were "equally absurd" and that he did not "like these medieval visions of the world according to which God is coming to save the faithful and to damn the others". McEwan put forward
1224-488: A ten-year-old boy in the basket and his grandfather being dragged behind it, has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins several other men in an effort to bring the balloon to safety. In the rescue attempt one man, John Logan, a doctor, dies. Another of the would-be rescuers is Jed Parry. Joe and Jed exchange a passing glance, a glance which indelibly burns an obsession into Jed's soul and has devastating consequences, for Jed suffers from de Clerambault's syndrome ,
1296-633: A win for the Leave or Brexit campaign in June 2016, McEwan wrote a critical opinion article for The Guardian titled "Britain is changed utterly. Unless this summer is just a bad dream", published on 9 July 2016. In the article, McEwan wrote of the consequences of the Brexit vote: "Everything is changed utterly. Or about to be, as soon as your new leader is chosen. The country you live in, the parliamentary democracy that ruled it, for good or bad, has been trumped by
1368-802: The 1968 invasion . He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol , where he began directing and writing short plays, before reading English at Queens' College, Cambridge , where he directed and acted in dozens of plays, winning both the RSC Buzz Goodbody Award for Best Student Director at the NSDF, and a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his play Private Dick . He graduated in 1977. After leaving Cambridge, Michell moved to Brighton where he directed Peter Gill ’s Small Change and other plays for
1440-478: The Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His next novel, Atonement , garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar -winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy . His later novels have included The Children Act , Nutshell , and Machines Like Me . He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize , and the 2011 Jerusalem Prize . McEwan was born in Aldershot , Hampshire , on 21 June 1948,
1512-562: The Falklands War and the Labour Party , led by Tony Benn , eventually wins the 1987 UK general election . In September 2019, McEwan announced a quick surprise follow-up novella inspired by Brexit, The Cockroach . McEwan published his novel Lessons in 2022 to much critical acclaim. Andrew Billen of The Times calls it McEwan's "500-page masterpiece", and The New Statesman claims the novel "may well be remembered as one of
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#17327901101331584-693: The Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End), and Blue/Orange with Bill Nighy , Andrew Lincoln , and Chiwetel Ejiofor , which won numerous awards and played in the West End for a year. Michell was subsequently sought out by Richard Curtis to direct his script Notting Hill , which became an award-winning smash hit and the greatest British Box Office success of all time. He then directed the 2002 critical box office success Changing Lanes starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson . For
1656-658: The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas paid $ 2 million for McEwan's literary archives. The archives include drafts of all of his later novels. McEwan commented that his novel Atonement started out as a science fiction story set "two or three centuries in the future". In 2018, McEwan was awarded the Bauer- Incroci di civiltà prize in Venice for his literary career. In 2019, McEwan received
1728-762: The International Booker Prize in 2005 and 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Society of Authors , and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was awarded the annual Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation , Hamburg, in 1999. He is also a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK . He
1800-535: The Jerusalem Prize in 2011, McEwan defended himself against criticism for accepting the prize in light of opposition to Israeli policies, saying: "If you didn't go to countries whose foreign policy or domestic policy is screwed up, you'd never get out of bed". On accepting the honour, he spoke in favour of Israel's existence, security, and freedoms, while strongly attacking Hamas, Israel's policies in Gaza, and
1872-723: The Old Vic , Penhall's Mood Music , starring Ben Chaplin . His next film was 2010's Morning Glory , a comedy starring Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford set in the world of morning news, produced by J. J. Abrams . Michell then went on to direct Bill Murray playing FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson , for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Next came the multi-award-winning Le Week-End , another collaboration with Hanif Kureishi, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan , set and filmed in Paris. After working with Ellie Goulding on
1944-627: The University of Sussex , where he received a degree in English literature in 1970; and the University of East Anglia , where he undertook a master's degree in literature (with the option to submit creative writing instead of a critical dissertation). McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. He achieved notoriety in 1979 when
2016-465: The "100 most powerful people in British culture ". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name . He won
2088-541: The 2010s, Solar , was published by Jonathan Cape and Doubleday in March 2010. In June 2008 at the Hay Festival, McEwan gave a surprise reading of this work-in-progress. The novel includes "a scientist who hopes to save the planet" from the threat of climate change , with inspiration for the novel coming from a Cape Farewell expedition McEwan made in 2005 in which "artists and scientists ... spent several weeks aboard
2160-494: The 70s starring Julie Walters and Ciaran Hinds , and winner of Awards at Emden and Locarno. Throughout the 1990s, Michell directed a number of productions at the National Theatre including Mustapha Matura's The Coup , Pinter's The Homecoming , Dylan Thomas ’s Under Milk Wood , Joanna Murray Smith's Honour , Joe Penhall's Landscape With Weapon , Granville Barker's Waste , Nina Raine's Consent (subsequently at
2232-560: The BBC suspended production of his play Solid Geometry because of its supposed obscenity. His second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets , was published in 1978. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his two earliest novels, were both adapted into films. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed "Ian Macabre". These were followed by his first book for children, Rose Blanche (1985), and
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2304-623: The Board of Trustees of the Kenyon Review honoured McEwan with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, writing that "McEwan's stories, novels, and plays are notable for their fierce artistic dramas, exploring unanticipated and often brutal collisions between the ordinary and the extraordinary". In 2008, The Times named McEwan among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2010, McEwan received
2376-748: The Brighton Actors Workshop. In 1978, under the RTDS scheme, he became an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre where he assisted, amongst others, John Osborne , Max Stafford-Clark , and Samuel Beckett , and directed a number of plays in the Theatre Upstairs. Michell's contemporaries at the Court included Antonia Bird , Simon Curtis , Hanif Kureishi and, as his stage manager, Danny Boyle . In 1979 he left
2448-824: The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 2020, McEwan was awarded the Goethe Medal , a yearly prize given by the Goethe-Institut honouring non-Germans "who have performed outstanding service for the German language and for international cultural relations". According to the jury, McEwan's literary work ("Machines like us") is "imbued with the essence of contradiction and critical, depth-psychological reflection of social phenomena". Despite harsh attacks in his own country,
2520-541: The Iraq War was that "sometimes there are things we could do [before that war] which we no longer can" in foreign affairs; stated that at one point prior to the 2003 invasion he had hoped to be able to seek an audience with Tony Blair to persuade him not to go ahead with the war; and as someone who voted for the Liberal Democrats in the 2010 UK general election that the then current coalition government of
2592-495: The Palestinians. That's why I think one wants to go to these places to make the point. Turning away will not produce any result." That same year, as part of a wide-ranging interview with Channel 4 News , McEwan discussed the furore that surrounded his remarks on Islamism in 2008, stating: "I remember getting a lot of stick five or six years ago saying something disobliging about jihadists. There were voices, particularly on
2664-753: The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust . On 20 February 2011, McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. He accepted the prize, despite controversy and pressure from groups and individuals opposed to the Israeli government. McEwan responded to his critics, and specifically
2736-835: The Royal Court Theatre and began writing and directing as a freelance, the most successful result of which was Private Dick , a comedy about Raymond Chandler co-written with Richard Maher , which opened at the Lyric Hammersmith to great reviews, and later moved to the West End with Robert Powell as Philip Marlowe . In 1985, Michell joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where, as Resident Director for six years, he directed plays by Shakespeare, Havel, Nelson, Bond, Farquhar, Darke, and others, including Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad , which transferred to Broadway in 1990. In 1989, Michell
2808-534: The United Kingdom should end, stating "Let's either have a Tory government or let Ed Miliband try something different" to try and turn around a country of "great inequity". McEwan is traditionally a Labour Party supporter and said he had his "fingers crossed" that Miliband would become prime minister. Following the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union resulting in
2880-531: The acclaimed documentary Nothing Like a Dame for the BBC, featuring Joan Plowright , Maggie Smith , Eileen Atkins , and Judi Dench ; the euthanasia-focused family drama Blackbird with Kate Winslet , Sam Neill , Susan Sarandon , Rainn Wilson , Mia Wasikowska , and Lindsay Duncan; and The Duke , with Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent, which premiered to universal acclaim at the 2020 Venice Film Festival . His final film, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts ,
2952-546: The ascension of Theresa May to the leadership of the Conservative Party and her appointment as prime minister, and noting how the previously unthinkable in British politics had actually happened. McEwan's article was published on 9 July, and May effectively won the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election on 11 July, which precipitated her appointment as prime minister two days later. In May 2017, speaking at
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3024-405: The boycott campaign in general, stating that there are many countries "whose governments we might loathe or disapprove of" but "Israel–Palestine has become sort of tribal and a touchstone for a certain portion of the intellectual classes. I say this in the context of thinking it is profoundly wrong of the Israeli government not to be pursuing more actively and positively and creatively a solution with
3096-441: The complaints against him and provided further insight into his reasons for accepting the award. He also said he will donate the amount of the prize, "ten thousand dollars to Combatants for Peace , an organisation that brings together Israeli ex-soldiers and Palestinian ex-fighters". In 2012, the University of Sussex presented McEwan with its 50th Anniversary Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to literature. In 2014,
3168-630: The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories; these were notable words since the audience included politicians such as the Israeli President Shimon Peres and Nir Barkat , the mayor of Jerusalem. McEwan also personally attended a protest in Sheikh Jarrah against the expansion of Israeli settlements. In 2013, McEwan sharply criticised Stephen Hawking for boycotting a conference in Israel as well as
3240-418: The facts of the incident incorrect. Joe leaves dissatisfied, knowing that Jed is still out there and looking for him. Like the detective, however, Clarissa is sceptical that Jed is stalking Joe and that Joe is in any danger. This, plus the stress Joe suffers at Jed's hands, strains their relationship. Fearing for his safety, Joe purchases a gun through an acquaintance, John Well. On the journey home Joe receives
3312-404: The film rights to Sweet Tooth had been bought by Working Title Films – the company that had adapted Atonement as a film. Sweet Tooth was followed two years later by The Children Act , which concerned High Court judges, UK family law, and the right to die. Two years after The Children Act , McEwan's 2016 novel Nutshell , a short novel closer in style and tone to his earlier works,
3384-423: The finest humanist novels of its age". McEwan has been nominated for the Booker Prize six times to date, winning the prize for Amsterdam in 1998. His other nominations were for The Comfort of Strangers (1981, shortlisted), Black Dogs (1992, shortlisted), Atonement (2001, shortlisted), Saturday (2005, longlisted), and On Chesil Beach (2007, shortlisted). McEwan also received nominations for
3456-531: The following statement on his official site and blog after claiming he was misinterpreted: In 2007, Christopher Hitchens dedicated his book God Is Not Great to McEwan. In 2008, McEwan was among more than 200,000 signatories of a petition to support Italian journalist Roberto Saviano who received multiple death threats and was placed in police protection after exposing the Mafia -like crime syndicate , Camorra , in his 2006 book Gomorrah . McEwan said he hoped
3528-569: The group British Writers in Support of Palestine (BWISP), in a letter to The Guardian , stating in part, "There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics, and for me the emblem in this respect is Daniel Barenboim 's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – surely a beam of hope in a dark landscape, though denigrated by the Israeli religious right and Hamas . If BWISP is against this particular project, then clearly we have nothing more to say to each other". McEwan's acceptance speech discussed
3600-618: The lack of a script. This "freaked" Michell out, seeing a WGA writers’ strike fast-approaching, production gearing up, and still no proper script or story. The producers eventually delayed the film a year and eventually went ahead with Marc Forster at the helm. He continued to work in theatre, at Hampstead Theatre with Richard Nelson's Farewell to the Theatre ; at the Royal Court with Joe Penhall's Birthday , which he also filmed starring Stephen Mangan , and Nina Raine's Tribes ; and at
3672-473: The left, that thought anyone who criticised Islamism was really criticising Islam and therefore racist. Well, those voices have gone quiet because the local atrocities committed by Islamists whether in Pakistan or Mali is so self-evidently vile." In the same interview, McEwan remarked that he felt protesters of the 2003 Iraq War were "vindicated" by what happened subsequently; argued that the chief legacy of
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#17327901101333744-489: The life of a successful neurosurgeon . Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005. His novel On Chesil Beach (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and was adapted into a film starring Saoirse Ronan in 2017, for which McEwan wrote the screenplay. McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, and an oratorio and
3816-643: The mini rom-com How Long Will I Love You? , Michell directed the much-lauded two-part TV drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies , written by Peter Morgan , and telling the true-life story of a retired schoolteacher accused of murder. Jefferies was in fact not only innocent, but one of Michell's teachers at school. The film went on to win Michell a second BAFTA, as well as RTS and other awards. Next came his own adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel , starring Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz ;
3888-556: The name of the paper's fictional writers, but it was not published. Speaking in 1999, McEwan said "I get four or five letters a week, usually from reading groups but sometimes from psychiatrists and scholars, asking if I wrote the appendix." Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter . In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of
3960-635: The next decade, Michell chose for personal reasons to work only in the UK, and in 2003 directed The Mother , his second collaboration with Hanif Kureishi, starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig . Craig also starred in Michell's subsequent film, Enduring Love (2004), an adaptation of Ian McEwan 's novel, before directing Peter O'Toole in 2006's Venus , again written by Kureishi. Their partnership became one of several important relationships with writers in both theatre and film, including Nick Darke , Joe Penhall , Joanna Murray Smith , and Nina Raine . Michell
4032-541: The novelist. He followed that with the BBC film of Jane Austen ’s Persuasion in 1995, widely regarded as one of the finest Austen adaptations, and winner of the 1995 BAFTA for Best Single Drama. Michell then directed My Night with Reg (1997), from the award-winning play that he had directed at the Royal Court and for a year in the West End. Next came Titanic Town (1998), a story set in Northern Ireland in
4104-486: The petition would help "galvanize" the Italian police into taking seriously the "fundamental matter of civil rights and free speech". McEwan also signed a petition to support the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of committing adultery. In 2009, McEwan joined the 10:10 project, a movement that supports positive action on climate change by encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions. On winning
4176-738: The plot of which closely mirrored some of those of Our Mother's House , a 1963 novel by British author Julian Gloag , which had also been made into a film. McEwan denied charges of plagiarism, claiming he was unaware of the earlier work. Writing in The Guardian in November 2006, a month after Andrews' death, McEwan professed innocence of plagiarism while acknowledging his debt to the author of No Time for Romance . Several authors defended him, including John Updike , Martin Amis , Margaret Atwood , Thomas Keneally , Kazuo Ishiguro , Zadie Smith , and Thomas Pynchon . McEwan's first novel of
4248-451: The popular movie review site Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a rating of 59% positive reviews. In 2023, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatization written by Kate Clanchy , starring Blake Ritson and Hattie Morahan , and produced and directed by Amber Barnfather . The book contains an appendix purporting to be a scientific paper ("A Homo-Erotic Obsession, with Religious Overtones: A Clinical Variant of de Clerambault's Syndrome") describing
4320-446: The river, Joe telling the children a story about how the river is made up of many particles. In the first of the novel's appendices (a medical report on Jed's condition) we learn that Joe and Clarissa are eventually reconciled, and that they adopt a child. In the second appendix (a letter from Jed to Joe) we learn that even after three years Jed remains uncured and is now living in a psychiatric hospital . Upon release, Enduring Love
4392-556: The son of David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet ( née Moore). His father was a working-class Scotsman who had worked his way up through the army to the rank of major. McEwan spent much of his childhood in East Asia (including Singapore ), Germany , and North Africa (including Libya ), where his father was posted. His family returned to England when he was 12 years old. He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk ;
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#17327901101334464-531: The writer "openly defends himself against narrow-minded nationalisms" and appears as a passionate pro-European . He was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature. In 2008, McEwan publicly spoke out against Islamism for its views on women and on homosexuality . He was quoted as saying that fundamentalist Islam wanted to create
4536-587: Was a British theatre, television and film director. He was best known for directing films such as Notting Hill and Venus , as well as the 1995 made-for-television film Persuasion . Roger Harry Michell was born on 5 June 1956 in Pretoria , Union of South Africa . He was not South African, as is sometimes mistakenly assumed, but was born there because his father was a British diplomat who had been posted to South Africa. On account of his father's job, Michell spent parts of his childhood in Beirut , Damascus , and Prague ; he and his family were in Prague during
4608-404: Was a cautious man and probably only died because he was showing off to the woman, trying to prove his manliness, and thereby taking unnecessary risks, rather than hanging back and staying safe. During a lunch with Clarissa and her godfather, Joe witnesses the attempted murder of a man seated at a table next to theirs, resulting in the man being shot in the shoulder. However, Joe realises the bullet
4680-457: Was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to literature. In 2005, he was the first recipient of Dickinson College 's Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program Award, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania . In 2008, McEwan was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College London , where he had previously taught English literature. In 2006,
4752-533: Was appointed the Judith E Wilson Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge . Michell was a graduate of the BBC Directors' Course, a three-month course especially designed to help theatre directors understand the camera. Subsequently, his first piece of television was the three-part Leigh Jackson thriller Downtown Lagos , produced by Michael Wearing , which in turn led to the award-winning adaptation of Hanif Kureishi 's autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia , starring Naveen Andrews , which he scripted with
4824-432: Was born from an affair that occurred before they married. After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married her lover, and Ian was born a few years later. The brothers are in regular contact and McEwan has written a foreword to Sharp's memoir. McEwan was a long-time friend of the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens . Roger Michell Roger Harry Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021)
4896-439: Was followed by McEwan's twelfth novel, Sweet Tooth , a meta-fictional historical novel set in the 1970s, and was published in late August 2012. In an interview with The Scotsman newspaper to coincide with publication, McEwan revealed that the impetus for writing Sweet Tooth had been "a way in which I can write a disguised autobiography". He revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal , in November 2012, that
4968-508: Was generally well received. According to Book Marks , the book received "positive" reviews based on ten critic reviews with three being "rave" and six being "positive" and one being "mixed". In 2004, Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name . The film version was directed by Roger Michell , written by Joe Penhall , and starred Daniel Craig , Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton , with Bill Nighy , Susan Lynch and Corin Redgrave . The film received mixed reviews from critics, and
5040-417: Was in negotiations to work with Craig yet again in 2006 on what became the James Bond film Quantum of Solace , but after months of unfruitful script conferences, and in spite of good relationships with the producers, he jumped ship. Michell later explained that he reached "tipping point" with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson , who were "desperate" to release the next 007 film in 2007, despite
5112-466: Was meant for himself and the similar composition of the group of people at the other table misled the two killers into thinking the other man was their target. Before the hit man can deliver the fatal shot Jed Parry intervenes to save the innocent man's life before fleeing the scene. In the subsequent police interview Joe insists that it was Jed Parry who was behind this attack, but the detective does not believe him, possibly because Joe appears to get some of
5184-588: Was published. McEwan's next work, a short novella, was titled My Purple Scented Novel – part of which was published previously as a short story by the same title in The New Yorker in 2016. This short work was published to mark McEwan's 70th birthday in June 2018. McEwan followed Nutshell in April 2019 with the alternate history/science fiction novel Machines Like Me . It concerns artificial intelligence and an alternate history in which Great Britain loses
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