Martin Amis

Martin Amis (*25. August 1949 in Oxford) ist ein englischer Schriftsteller und Sohn des Romanciers Kingsley Amis. Für seinen ersten Roman The Rachel Papers erhielt er (1974) den Somerset Maugham Award. Er veröffentlichte eine Reihe weiterer Romane, Kurzgeschichten, sowie einen Band Memoiren (Experience), in dem er sich vor allem mit seiner Beziehung zu seinem berühmten Vater auseinandersetzt.

Werke

Romane

• The Rachel Papers. (1973)
• Dead Babies. (1975)
• Success. (1978)
• Other People. (1981)
• Money: A Suicide Note. (1984)
• London Fields. (1989)
• Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense. (1991)
• The Information. (1995)
• Night Train. (1997)
• Yellow Dog. (2003)

Erzählungen und Sammelbände

• Einstein's Monsters. (1987)
• Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions. (1993)
• Two Stories. (1994)
• God's Dice. (1995)
• Heavy Water: And Other Stories. (1998)
• State of England: And Other Stories. ((1998)
• Amis Omnibus. (1999)
• The Fiction of Martin Amis. (2000)
• Vintage Amis. (2004)

Non-Fiction

• Invasion of the Space Invaders. (1982)
• The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America. (1986)
• Experience. (2000)
• The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000. (2001)
• Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million. (Über Stalin und die russische Geschichte)

Weblinks

• Vorlage:PND
• The Martin Amis Web (created by James Diedrick; now administered by Gavin Keulks)
• Martin Amis - Author Page - Guardian Books
• Two Audio Interviews with Martin Amis - 1985 (23 min. 22 sec.) and 1990 (32 min. 4 sec.) RealAudio
• Martin Amis, The New York Times – Reviews of Martin Amis's Earlier Books, Articles About and By Martin Amis
• Authors in the front line: Martin Amis, The Sunday Times Magazine, February 06, 2005 – On the streets of Colombia, young boys cripple or murder each other just for showing disrespect or for winning at a game of cards. Is the taste for violence opening up a wound that can never heal? Report: Martin Amis – In The Sunday Times Magazine's continuing series of articles, renowned writers bring a fresh perspective to the world's trouble spots. The international medical-aid organisation MSF has helped our correspondents reach some of these inhospitable areas.