1.Born in 1948, he spent much of his childhood abroad as his father was an army officer,
2.He studied English literature and creative writing at the universities of Sussex and East Anlia.
3.He has written a number of successful collections of short stories and novels.
4.His novel The Child in Time won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1987.
5.His later novels, including Amsterdam, Atonoment and Saturday have been very successful.
6.Amsterdam received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1998.
7.Atonement and Saturday have also won literarry prizes.
8.However, Mc Ewan has always been a controversial writer.
9.Some writers accused him of stealing details in Atonoment from the work of another author Lucilla Andrews.
10.However, he pointed out the acknowledgement made to Lucilla Andrews in an author's note in the book.
11.During the controversy, the American author Thomas I'ynchon wrote a defense of Mc Ewan in a British newspaper.
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