Acclaimed author Martin Amis has passed away at home after a battle with oesophageal cancer. Amis, from Oxford, died at the age of 73 after writing fifteen novels, including Money and London Fields.
The author, who was twice listed for the prestigious Booker Prize, is said to have redefined fiction in the UK with his unique style of prose. He was born in in 1949 to mum Hilary Bardwell and father Kingsley Amis, also an esteemed writer, reports the Daily Mirror.
He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with First Class Honours in English, and went on to publish his first novel The Rachel Papers in 1973, winning the Somerset Maugham Award.
The novelist won a number of accolades throughout his career, and in a list by the Times in 2008 he was named one of Britain's greatest ever authors. Mr Amis was also awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 2000 memoir Experience.
He was a successful essayist, writing for The Sunday Times, The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times over the years.
On Saturday evening, May 20, his dear wife Isabel Fonseca announced that he had lost his fight with cancer, and passed away at his home in Florida.
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