Martin Amis, British writer, dies aged 73

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Author, who marked the British literary scene in the 1980s and 1990s, had esophageal cancer. Martin Amis during a gala dinner at the Royal Court Theater in London in October 1996 Reuters/Archive Martin Amis, British writer, died at age 73 in Florida, in the United States, this Friday (19). According to the newspaper “The Guardian”, the author’s wife, Isabel Fonseca, informed that he had esophageal cancer. Amis is considered an influential novelist alongside writers such as Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes. His works marked British literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Among his works are “Zona de Interest” and “Money”, the latter, from 1984, included in the list of the 100 best English language books by “The Guardian”. Amis was born in 1949 in Oxford and was educated at schools in Britain, Spain and the United States before going to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated at the top of his class. According to the paper, he credited his stepmother, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, with waking him up to literature during his teens. “She gave me a reading list and after an hour I went and knocked on her office door and said, ‘I need to know: Is Elizabeth marrying Darcy?'”

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