He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award’ (2010) and the ‘Jerusalem Prize’ (2011). Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program Award’ by Dickinson College. McEwan is the first person to be awarded with the prestigious ‘Harold and Ethel L. He received the ‘Shakespeare Prize’ by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1999 and a ‘CBE’ in 2000.

Ian McEwan has been honored by many awards including the ‘James Tait Black Memorial Prize’ for his novel ‘Saturday’ and the ‘Man Booker Prize’ for ‘Amsterdam’. He was simply against the ‘terrorism’ and he certainly does not endorse the U.S policies against the Muslim countries. He said that he had grown up in a Muslim country (Libya) and respected it as he has good memories of that time. Later he claimed to be misinterpreted and justified his statements by saying that he had spoken against fundamentalists and not Islam. He had to face a controversy that started because of the comments he made against Islam. They got divorced and Ian McEwan married the editor of Guardian, Annalena McAfee. They had two sons but the marriage failed when McEwan’s success got in the way of their relationship. McEwan’s first marriage was with Penny Allen whom he called a ‘complete free spirit’. His screenplays are ‘Jack Flea’s Birthday Celebrations (1976), ‘The Ploughman’s Lunch’ (1985), ‘Sour Sweet’ (1989) and ‘The Good Son’ (1993). Ian McEwan also produced several screenplays as well as a stage play and children’s fiction. Enduring love and Atonement were adapted into films in 20.

Saturday novel by ian mcewan