Ian McEwan CBE
Doctor of Letters (HonDLitt)
Year conferred: 2006
Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists.
After reading English at Sussex University, he became the first student on the University of East Anglia’s MA Creative Writing course established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.
Short-listed for Britain’s most prestigious literary award, The Booker Prize for Fiction, on three occasions, he won in 1998 with his novel Amsterdam. He has also written plays for television, film screenplays and a children’s book.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded a CBE in 2000.
