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Ian McEwen - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Producer.
Born 21 June 1948, Aldershot, UK - British screenwriter and producer.
When he was twelve, the family returned to England and was admitted to Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk, where he studied from 1959 to 1966, and where he developed an interest in English romantic poetry and modern American and English fiction. He worked briefly in London as a scavenger before enrolling at the University of Sussex in Brighton, graduating with honors and receiving a BA in English Literature in 1970. In the same year, McEwen was admitted to the University of East Anglia. where he was one of the first graduates of the innovative Creative Writing course, taught by writers Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson and received his master's degree there in 1971.
After completing his studies, the writer received a master's degree and went to Afghanistan. He soon began publishing stories in literary magazines. In 1975, he published a collection of stories, written by him as part of his master's degree coursework), called "First Love, Last Rites" (First Love, Last Rites). The compilation later won the author the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.
McEwen began writing scripts for radio plays and TV shows, and soon two scripts were used by the BBC: Conversations with a Cupboardman (1975) and Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration (1976 ) .
In 1978 he published his second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets, and his first novel, The Cement Garden. Shortly after the release of the latter, a scandal erupted in literary circles due to the fact that some critics noted the similarity between the novels "Cement Garden" and "Our Mother's House" by Julian Gloag, written in 1963. McEwen denied having read Gloag's work, and as a result, no official charges of plagiarism were filed. McEwen again found himself at the center of a scandal in 1980, when the BBC at the last moment pulled out of a play, Solid Geometry, centered on the story of a hero who keeps a chemically preserved penis in a jar on a table. Throughout the 1980s, McEwen mainly wrote screenplays for television and film. He wrote: "The Imitation Game", "The Plowman's Lunch", "The Last Day of Summer", "Soursweet", as well as a number of plays, for example , "Strangers". He has written two novels: The Comfort of Strangers and The Child In Time. Gruvemuvestart McEwen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Alfred Toepfer Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He is also a distinguished member of the British Humanist Association. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, McEwen was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from University College London, where he taught English literature.

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