‘Stylist extraordinaire’: worlds of literature and politics pay tribute to Martin Amis

Martin Amis, who has died aged 73. ‘There was something about his confidence that was contagious and liberating,’ said the novelist Anne Enright. Photograph: Barry Lewis/Corbis/Getty Images

Salman Rushdie has led tributes to Martin Amis after the celebrated author died aged 73.

Rushdie said Amis, who died at his home in Florida on Saturday, had a unique literary voice and that “it was unwise to try to imitate him”, adding in a piece for the New Yorker: “He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave behind a shelf of books – to be able to say: ‘From here to here, it’s me.’ His voice is silent now. His friends will miss him terribly. But we have the shelf.”