The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. It was followed by The Comfort of Strangers (1981), set in Venice, a tale of fantasy, violence and obsession. To avoid being taken into care, they bury their mother in cement in the basement and attempt to carry on as normal a life as possible, and an incestuous relationship develops between the two eldest children as they seek to emulate their parents' roles. His first novel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphaned children living alone after the death of both parents. These stories - claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and disjointed family life - were remarkable for their formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. A second volume of stories, In Between the Sheets, appeared in 1978. In 1976 his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), won the Somerset Maugham Award. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. After graduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writing course established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. He returned to England and read English at Sussex University. He spent much of his childhood in the Far East, Germany and North Africa where his father, an officer in the army, was posted. Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England.
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