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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a B.A. degree in

English Literature in 1970, and later received his M.A. degree in English Literature at the

University of East Anglia.

McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset

Maugham Award in 1976 for his collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread

Novel Award (1987), and the Prix Femina Etranger (1993) for The child in Time; and

Germany’s Shakespeare prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for

Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement

received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics‘ Circle Fiction Award

(20030, Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago prize for the European

Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial

Prize for his novel Saturday, and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the

Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader’s Digest Author

of the Year.

Retrieved from https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/ian-mcewan

Atonement

Ian McEwan’s novel entitled Atonement, is about of love, war, guilt, forgiveness,

childhood, identity, shame, social class, and loss of innocence that gives a satisfaction of a vivid

narrative from a master of English Prose.

On a hot summer day in the 1934 upper class countryside, a thirteen-year-old girl named

Briony Tallis sees the intimacy of her older sister named Cecilia Tallis with the son of their

father’s servant named Robbie Turner. The absence and innocence of Briony’s knowledge about

adult’s life, this brings a misconception that leads to a crime that change all of their life. The

crime’s consequences are carried through the bloodbath of World War II, up to the close of
Twentieth century. Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and

authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.

Atonement (2001), shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fictiiion and the Whitbread Novel

Award and winner of the W.H. Smith Literary Award, begins in 1935, and tells the story of

Briony, a young girl and aspiring writers, and the consequencecs of the discovery she makes

about Robbie, a young man destined to play a part in the Dunkirk Evacuations. This novel was

adopted for the screen, and the film was released in 2007. Saturday (2005), set on one day in

February 2003, won the 2006 James tait Black Memorial prize for Fiction. Retrieved from

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/ian-mcewan
Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manila, Philippines in 1949. With her background,

a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor,

Hagedorn adds a unique perspective to Asian American Performance and literature. Her mixed

media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue.

Moving to San Francisco in 1063, Hagedorn received her education at the Amercian

Conservatory Theater Training Program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to

New York in 1978.

Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn’s other productions

Include Tenement Lover, Holy Food, and teenytown.

In 1985, 1986, and 1988, she received Macdowell Colony Fellowships, which helped

enable her to write the novel Dogeaters, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino

experience, focusing on the influence of America through radio, television, and movie theaters.

She shows complexities of the love-hate relationship many Filipinos in diaspora feel toward their

past. After its publication in 1990, her novel earned a 1990 National Book Award nomination

and an American Book Award. In 1998, La Jolla Playhouse produced a stage adaptation.

She lives in New York with her husband and two daughters and continues to be a poet,

storyteller, musician, playwright, and multimedia performance artist.

Retrieved from https://www.jessicahagedorn.net

Toxicology

Jessica Hagedorn’s engaging novel entitled Toxicology, is often all the same time, a dark,

fearless, playful, savagely funny, and ultimately heartbreaking witch’s brew of a novel exploring

the connection between creativity and self-destruction.

In Manhattan’s West Village, two women living at the same area, Mimi Smith and Eleanor

Delacroix. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker whose only screen credit is a low-budget slasher movie

that finds herself in desperate need of recovery for both career and downwardly-spiraling life.

Eleanor Delacroix is a legendary, scandalous literary figure, now nearing eighty and addicted to

cocaine and gin. The grieves over the recent death of Eleanor Delacroix’s long-time lover, and

the mysterious disappearance of Mimi Smith’s drug dealing boyfriend are one of unexpected

ways, were their both personal and artistic lives begins to converge.

Looming the vast canvas of remarkable characters is the ghost of Agnes- an “illegal” and

cousin of Mimi’s who might have been murdered by her New Jersey employers.

REFERENCE

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/ian-mcewan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6867.Atonement

https://www.jessicahagedorn.net

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9709951-toxicology