Martin Amis, British Novelist, Dies at 73

Martin Amis died Friday in his Lake Worth Florida house from esophageal most cancers.

Amis was born to a novelist father, Kingsley Amis, in 1949 Oxford, England, and gained the 1974 Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, The Rachel Papers. He turned a giant a part of the literary scene in London within the ’80s and ’90s, and well-known for his books that satirized capitalism and Western society, comparable to Money: A Suicide Note (1984), London Fields (1989), and The Information (1995).

The similar day Amis died, an adaptation of his e book, The Zone of Interest, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Jonathan Glazer, follows a fictional Nazi officer who lives along with his spouse and youngsters subsequent to Auschwitz.

Amis is survived by his spouse, Isabel Fonseca, and 5 youngsters.

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