Ian McEwan (Aldershot, UK, 1948) graduated in English literature at the University of Sussex and is one of the most outstanding members of his very brilliant generation. In Anagram his two books of stories have been published, First love, last rites (Somerset Maugham Prize) and Between the sheets, as well as the novels the pleasure of the traveler, Children in the time (Whitbread Award and Fémina Prize), the innocent one, The Black Dogs, In the Clouds, Enduring Love, Amsterdam (Booker Prize), Atonement (which won, among other awards, the WH Smith Literary Award, People's Booker and Commonwealth Eurasia), Saturday (James Tait Black Award), Chesil Beach (National Book Award), Solar (Wodehouse Award), Sweet Operation, Minor's Law and Walnut Shell. McEwan was also awarded the Shakespeare Prize.