Ian McEwan
Author
Ian McEwan joined Cape Farewell on the 2005 Art/Science Expedition. Since then his writing from the expedition has been shown in Cape Farewell exhibitions The Ice Garden and Art & Climate Change.
His new, acclaimed and highly anticipated climate novel, Solar was released in March 2010, inspired by his voyage to the Arctic with Cape Farewell.
Ian was born in 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.
Ian's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Among them are the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday. His latest novel, On Chesil Beach, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (2007).
In March 2007 Ian joined Professor John Schellnhuber, Germany's Chief Government Advisor on Climate, in conversation at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. The event, staged as part of the British Council's Conversations series, was moderated by David Buckland, and was presented alongside the Cape Farewell exhibition Art & Climate Change.
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Ian McEwan 2005
"We are shaped by our history and biology to frame our plans within the short term, within the scale of a single lifetime. Now we are asked to address the well-being of unborn individuals we will never meet and who, contrary to the usual terms of human interaction, will not be returning the favour..."
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