London/IBNS: British writer Martin Amis, who is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989), has died.
He was 73.
Confirming his death, Penguin Books UK tweeted: “We are devastated at the death of our author and friend, Martin Amis. Our thoughts are with all his family and loved ones, especially his children and wife Isabel. He leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.”
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 served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.
In 2008, The Times named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.
We are devastated at the death of our author and friend, Martin Amis. Our thoughts are with all his family and loved ones, especially his children and wife Isabel. He leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.
