With Athens being designated “World Book Capital 2018” the Greek audience had the chance to meet, for the first time, with well-known British author Ian McEwan. During his two-day visit to Athens, McEwan appeared at the Athens Concert Hall, where he had an all-round discussion with Greek poet Haris Vlavianos, and signed copies of his books at a central bookstore. For all those that did not have the chance to see him live we have prepared a brief introduction to the author and his work.

“Ian McEwan was born on 21st June 1948 in Aldershot, England, and now lives in London. 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. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His bestselling 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). He also won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.”                                      

– from BookBrowse

Novels by Ian McEwan available in the library

In Greek

Καρυδότσουφλο: μυθιστόρημα. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2017. (Μ MCE)

Νόμος περί τέκνων: μυθιστόρημα. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2015. (Μ MCE)

Επιχείρηση ζάχαρη: μυθιστόρημα. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2013. (Μ MCE)

Σάββατο. Νεφέλη, 2006. (Μ MCE)

Εξιλέωση. Νεφέλη, 2002. (Μ MCE)

In English

Nutshell. Vintage, 2016. (F MCE)

The children act. Vintage, 2014. (F MCE)

Sweet tooth. Vintage, 2013. (F MCE)

On Chesil beach. Vintage, 2007. (F MCE)

The cement garden. Vintage, 2006. (F MCE)

Saturday. Jonathan Cape, 2005. (F MCE)

Saturday. Doubleday, 2005. (F MCE)

Atonement. Vintage, 2002. (F MCE)

The innocent, or, the special relationship. Vintage. 2001. (F MCE)

Enduring love. Vintage, 1998. (F MCE)

Amsterdam. Vintage, 1998. (F MCE)

The comfort of strangers. Vintage, 1997. (F MCE)

The daydreamer. Vintage, 1995. (F MCE)

Interesting websites

http://www.ianmcewan.com/index.html (Η επίσημη ιστοσελίδα για τον συγγραφέα)

https://www.facebook.com/Ian-McEwan-305499726425/ (Ο Ian McEwan στο Facebook)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ianmcewan (Ο Ian McEwan στην ιστοσελίδα The Guardian)

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/ian-mcewan (Ο Ian McEwan στο The New York Times)

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-ian-mcewan/?CMP=Spklr-_-Editorial-_-FBPAGE-_-TimesLiterarySupplement-_-20170103-_-764613426 (Είκοσι ερωτήσεις για τον McEwan στο TLS)

Interesting videos

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-11176666/five-minutes-with-ian-mcewan  (5 λεπτά με τον Ian McEwan στο BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZEE9_iZRk (Ian McEwan on his writing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9LZfX3Y8TI (Ian McEwan on ideas and inspiration)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4rQ-vbUfuI (Ian McEwan Interview: How we read each other)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzIABiyiPI (Ian McEwan Interview: On making love work in fiction)