Penguin Books UK stated on Saturday that British author Martin Amis, famed for novels like “Money” in 1984 and “London Fields” in 1989, has pἀssed away. He was 73.
The British publishing house said on Twitter–
“Amis leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape and will be missed enormously.”
It was announced on Friday that the author, who was only 24 when he published his debut work, “The Rachel Papers,” had pἀssed away.
Author Isabel Fonseca, who was married to Amis, told the New York Times that he dἰed of esophageal cἀncer. CNN has contacted Fonseca for comment. Louis, Jacob, Fernanda, Clio, Delilah Amis, and their mother, Fonesca, are Amis’s surviving children.
Penguin’s statement announcing Amis’ death Said-
“For so many people of my generation, Martin Amis was the one: the coolest, funniest, most quotable, most beautiful writer in the British literary firmament,” his former editor, Dan Franklin”.
The statement said-
“His publishing company remembered him as a “novelist, essayist, memoirist, critic, and stylist supreme who, for 40 years, bestrode the world of UK publishing”.
Oxford, England, is the place of Amis’ birth on August 25th, 1949. According to Penguin, he was the offspring of English novelist Kingsley Amis.
Penguin, Amis’s “The Second Plane,” a collection of essays and stories about September 11, 2001, exemplified his commitment as a writer to current events and significant historical moments, tackling big topics and questions.
Both “Time’s Arrow,” published in 1991, and “The Zone of Interest,” published in 2014, dealt with the Holocaust. The publishing company, the Exeter College alum, taught creative writing at the University of Manchester between 2007 and 2011.
Amis won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his autobiography, “Experience,” and had works longlisted for the Booker Prize on two separate occasions, most recently for “Time’s Arrow.” His writings “were noted for their dark, wry satire and inventiveness,” as claimed by Penguin.
His UK editor, Michal Shavit, said in Penguin’s statement-
“It’s hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis in it.He was the king – a stylist extraordinaire, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite, fearless writer, and a truly wonderful man.”
