![]() ![]() "I've always been interested in character. McEwan spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in September 2022 before a live audience at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. McEwan is one of Britain's foremost novelists, known for provocative, inventive fiction that engages with current realities and issues. His 17 novels include the Booker Prize winner Amsterdam and the hugely popular Atonement, which became an award-winning film starring Keira Knightly. Many of his other titles have also been adapted for the screen, including The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach and The Children Act. That is, until a transformative event leads the teenage Roland down a very different path from McEwan himself. From a desert army camp in Libya, to post-war Britain, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and pandemic Brexit – McEwan follows his fictional alter-ego through a lifetime marked by historical upheavals. ![]() ![]() In his latest novel, Lessons, Ian McEwan shares his own intimate background with his central character, Roland Baines. ![]() In 2022, Ian McEwan spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel Lessons. ![]()
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