Solar

Ian McEwan is the author of two books of short stories – First Love, Last Rites (Somerset Maugham Award 1976) and Between the Sheets – and eighteen novels – The Cement Garden (adapted to the cinema in 1993), The Child in Time (winner of the Whitbread Award 1987), The Innocent (adapted to the cinema in 1993), Strange Seduction (adapted to the cinema in 1990), Black Dogs, The Dreamer, The Burden of Love (adapted to film in 2004), Amsterdam (winner of the Booker Prize in 1998), Atonement ( US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2002 and WH Smith 2002 for best fiction book, adapted to the cinema by John Wright), Saturday ( James Tait Black Memorial Award), On Chesil Beach (nominated for Galaxy Book of the Year 2008 in the British Book Awards where the author was also nominated for Reader's Digest Author of the Year), Solar, Mel, The Ballad of Adam Henry (also adapted to the cinema), In a Nutshell, Machines Like Me, Lessons and What We Can Know. In 2009 he published a libretto for an opera by Michael Berkeley entitled Por Ti and in 2019 the novel A Barata.
All his works are published in Portugal by Gradiva. He also signed several screenplays, including The Imitation Game, The Plough-man's Lunch, Sour Sweet and The Good Son.
He currently lives in London.