Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’

The Booker-winning author on Angela Merkel, tennis and his tribute to The Go-BetweenBorn in Hampshire, Ian McEwan, 70, took a creative writing Ma at the University of East Anglia.

In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later.

He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam.

His novels Atonement and On Chesil Beach are both films, and The Children Act is in cinemas on 24 August.When were you happiest?In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun.

Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.

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