Famed British author Martin Amis has died aged 73 after a battle with cancer.
Author of fifteen novels including Money and London Fields, he was twice listed for the Booker Prize and is credited with redefining UK fiction in the late twentieth century with his biting comic outlook.
Amis was born in Oxford in 1949 to mum Hilary Bardwell and father Kingsley Amis, who was also a writer.
He graduated Exeter College, Oxford with First Class Honours in English before publishing his first novel The Rachel Papers in 1973, which earnt him a Somerset Maugham Award one year later.
The celebrated novelist would go on to win a number of accolades in the following decades, and in 2008 was named one of Britain's greatest ever authors in a list by The Times.
Amis also received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 2000 memoir Experience.
Alongside his books he also had a successful career as an essayist, writing for The Sunday Times, The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times.
His wife Isabel Fonseca confirmed on Saturday evening that he had died at his home in Florida following a battle with oesophageal cancer.
Online tributes have remembered the author for his lasting influence on British literature as well as his incisive commentary on social changes over the past half-century, including his many observations on the wider impacts of Thatcherism from the 1980s onwards.
A short statement from the Booker Prize read: "We are saddened to hear that Martin Amis, one of the most acclaimed and discussed novelists of the past 50 years, has died.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends."
