British novelist Martin Amis dies aged 73 - reports
Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73.Amis is best known for his 1984 novel Money and the 1989 work London Fields.
Published in 1973 while he was working at the Times Literary Supplement, it won the Somerset Maugham award the following year. They belonged to a colourful set which reinvigorated the British literary scene and has been credited with inspiring a generation of younger writers. Amis was also known as a public intellectual and an often controversial commentator on current affairs and politics.The book, set in New York and London, follows a director of adverts as he attempts to make his first feature film, and was based on Amis's own time as a script writer on Saturn 3, a widely-panned sci-fi film starring Kirk Douglas.
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