Writer Martin Amis has died at 73.

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Writer Martin Amis has died at 73.

Tom Craig/Bill Charles Agency

Influential British writer Martin Amis has died at his residence in Lake Worth, Fla., of esophageal most cancers. He was 73.

His agent, Andrew Wiley, and his writer, Vintage Books, confirmed his demise on Saturday.

“It’s hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis in it,” mentioned his U.Okay. editor Michal Shavit, in an announcement shared with NPR. “He has been so important and formative for so many readers and writers over the last half century. Every time he published a new book it was an event. He will be remembered as one of the greatest writers of his time and his books will stand the test of time alongside some of his favourite writers: Saul Bellow, John Updike, and Vladimir Nabokov.”

Over a profession spanning greater than 40 years, Amis turned one of many world’s main literary celebrities, recognized greatest for novels together with Money, The Information and London Fields that got here to outline British life within the late twentieth century. He printed 15 novels in addition to a memoir, brief tales, screenplays and works of nonfiction.

Many of his titles, together with the debut novel he wrote whereas working as an editorial assistant at The Times Literary Supplement, 1973’s The Rachel Papers, have been tailored for the display screen. The movie model of his 2014 novel The Zone of Interest premiered solely Friday on the Cannes Film Festival to rave evaluations.

The movie tells the story of a senior Nazi army officer’s household who reside subsequent door to Auschwitz.

“Martin Amis’s work was as singular as his voice — that wicked intelligence, the darkest of humor, and such glorious prose,” mentioned Oscar Villalon, editor of the literary journal ZYZZYVA and former San Francisco Chronicle books editor. “But it was how he scoped the corruption of contemporary life — indeed, how he unpacked the evil of the 20th century — that gives his work an urgency that will remain potent.”

In a 2012 interview with NPR’s Weekend Edition, Amis shared his discomfort with being well-known.

“I don’t see the glory of fame,” Amis told host Linda Wertheimer. “And I can’t imagine why people covet it.”

In his later years, Amis sparked controversy for his views. He was accused of Islamophobia over comments in an interview. He advocated for euthanasia cubicles as a approach to deal with the U.Okay.’s getting older inhabitants.

The son of one other famend British novelist, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis was born in 1949 in Oxford, England and attended faculties within the U.Okay., Spain and the U.S. earlier than graduating from Oxford University with a level in English literature.

The British literary institution usually in contrast the daddy with the son, a lot to the son’s consternation. In a 2000 interview with NPR’s Morning Edition, Amis mentioned his father, who rocketed to fame within the Nineteen Fifties together with his novel Lucky Jim, discouraged him from pursuing a literary profession and wasn’t a fan of his “modernist” writing fashion.

“He didn’t like prose, period. He was a poet as well as a novelist, and poetry was actually his passion,” Amis instructed Renée Montagne. “And he hated it if I did any kind of modernist tricks, like unreliable narrators. Anything of that kind would have him hurling the books of the air.”