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Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia

The pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, Martin Amis's pyrotechnic prose captured life's destructive energies

Martin Amis pictured at home in 2012. Bebeto Matthews/AP

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

Amis captured the contemporary world’s sinister, destructive energies in a savage and glittering series of novels, essays and memoirs.

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