British novelist Martin Amis dies aged 73 - reports

Martin Amis, 1 of the astir celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73, the New York Times reports.

He died of oesophageal crab astatine his Florida home, the insubstantial said, quoting his wife.

Amis is champion known for his 1984 caller Money and the 1989 enactment London Fields.

He authored dozens of novels and non-fiction books, and is wide considered 1 of the astir influential writers of his era.

Born successful 1949 successful Oxford, helium was the lad of the novelist and writer Kingsley Amis. The younger Amis followed successful his father's footsteps with his archetypal novel, the Rachel Papers.

Published successful 1973 portion helium was moving astatine the Times Literary Supplement, it won the Somerset Maugham grant the pursuing year.

The Rachel Papers was the archetypal of a drawstring of notable works, which alongside penning by contemporaries similar Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan, are considered defining works of the 1980s.

Money, published successful 1984, was his astir acclaimed enactment and became 1 of the decade's astir iconic novels.

The book, acceptable successful New York and London, follows a manager of adverts arsenic helium attempts to marque his archetypal diagnostic film, and was based connected Amis's ain clip arsenic a publication writer connected Saturn 3, a widely-panned sci-fi movie starring Kick Douglas.

His enactment was often characterised by its darkly comic taxable substance and satire. He besides often returned to the taxable of the Holocaust passim his career.

Amis was besides known arsenic a nationalist intelligence and an often arguable commentator connected existent affairs and politics.

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