Dan sekali lagi pengarang mereka menyerang Islam

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Dan sekali lagi Islam menjadi punching bag kepada pengarang Barat. Kali ini, pengarang terkenal berbangsa Inggeris, Ian McEwan, yang tersohor dengan novel Atonement (yang diangkat ke filem dengan judul Atonement dan dicalon kan untuk Filem Terbaik Oscar 2007).

McEwan memandang hina kepada Islam, berdasarkan laporan akhbar The Independent di London, sebagai mempertahankan rakan karibnya, Martin Amis, yang sebelum itu mengirimkan surat terbuka kepada Koresponden The Independent yang beragama Islam, yang mengandungi kata-kata bermaksud, 揑slam bukan saja mahu membunuhku, bahkan juga kamu.

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Ian McEwan Biography (British Council)

Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire,England. He spent much of his childhood in the Far East, Germany andNorth Africa where his father, an officer in the army, was posted. Hereturned to England and read English at Sussex University. Aftergraduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writingcourse established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradburyand Angus Wilson. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society ofLiterature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize bythe Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. He was awarded a CBEin 2000.

In 1976 his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), won the Somerset Maugham Award. A second volume of stories, In Between the Sheets,appeared in 1978. These stories - claustrophobic tales of childhood,deviant sexuality and disjointed family life - were remarkable fortheir formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. His firstnovel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphanedchildren living alone after the death of both parents. To avoid beingtaken into care, they bury their mother in cement in the basement andattempt to carry on as normal a life as possible, and an incestuousrelationship develops between the two eldest children as they seek toemulate their parents roles. It was followed by The Comfort of Strangers (1981), set in Venice, a tale of fantasy, violence and obsession. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

His next novel, The Child in Time(1987), won the Whitbread Novel Award, and marked a new confidence inMcEwan's writing. The story is centred on the devastating effect of theloss of a child through abduction. The Innocent (1990) is a love story set in post-war Berlin. Black Dogs(1992) visits the most significant events of modern European history,ranging from Nazi death camps to post-war France and the collapse ofthe Berlin Wall. Enduring Love (1997), begins with the death ofa man in a ballooning accident, an event that triggers a tale ofstalking, fixation and erotomania. Amsterdam (1998) isdescribed by McEwan as a contemporary fable. Three men, a composer, anewspaper editor and a politician, meet at the funeral of their formerlover, sparking off a bitter feud. It was awarded the Booker Prize forFiction in 1998.

Atonement (2001), shortlisted for theBooker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award and winner ofthe W. H. Smith Literary Award, begins in 1935 and tells the story ofBriony, a young girl and aspiring writer, and the consequences of thediscovery she makes about Robbie, a young man destined to play a partin the Dunkirk evacuations. This novel was adapted for the screen, andthe film released in 2007. Saturday (2005), set on one day in February 2003, won the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction).

In addition to his prose fiction, Ian McEwan has written plays for television and film screenplays, including The Ploughman's Lunch (1985), an adaptation of Timothy Mo's novel Sour Sweet (1988) and an adaptation of his own novel, The Innocent (1993). He also wrote the libretto to Michael Berkeley's music for the oratorio Or Shall We Die? and is the author of a children's book, The Daydreamer (1994).

Film adaptations of his own novels include First Love, Last Rites (1997), The Cement Garden (1993) and The Comfort of Strangers (1991), for which Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Atonement (2007).

Ian McEwan lives in London. His latest novel is On Chesil Beach(2007), shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, andwinner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year and Author of theYear Awards. He is currently writing the libretto to For You, a new opera about an ageing conductor/composer, with music by Michael Berkeley.

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