British writer Martin Amis dies aged 73, says publisher

British author Martin Amis, best known for his 1984 novel “Money” and 1989’s “London Fields”, died on Friday at the age of 73.

The news was announced this Saturday (20) by its publisher Penguin Books UK. Amis is survived by his wife and children – Louis, Jacob, Fernanda, Clio and Delilah.

“(Amis) leaves an imposing legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape and will be sorely missed,” the British publisher said on Twitter.

Amis’s wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told the New York Times that the cause of his death was esophageal cancer.

“For so many people of my generation, Martin Amis was one of a kind: the coolest, funniest, most quotable and handsome writer in British literature,” said his former editor, Dan Franklin, in a Penguin statement announcing Amis’s death.

His publisher remembers him as a “supreme novelist, essayist, memoirist, critic and stylist who, for 40 years, dominated the UK publishing world,” the statement said.

Amis was born on August 25, 1949, in Oxford, England. He was the son of English novelist Kingsley Amis, according to Penguin.

As a writer involved with current events and important historical moments, Amis’s work tackled big questions, Penguin said, including “The Second Plane,” his collection of essays and stories about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

The author released her first novel, “The Rachel Papers”, when she was 24 years old.

“It’s hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis,” his UK editor Michal Shavit said in Penguin’s statement. “He was king – an extraordinary stylist, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite and fearless writer and a truly wonderful man.”

Source: CNN Brasil

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