Event Lectures and Symposia Live! at the Library with Ian McEwan: The Journey of Life in "Lessons"

Date and Location

  • When: Thursday, September 22, 2022

    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

  • Where: James Madison Building - Montpelier Room (LM619)

    101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540

Part of Live at the Library

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Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of “Atonement” and “Amsterdam,” will discuss his latest novel, “Lessons,” with the Library’s Literary Director, Clay Smith.

Ian McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). Atonement was also made into an Oscar-winning film.