Fellow writers including Salman Rushdie express their admiration for British novelist who has died aged 73
Amis was born on 25 August 1949, in Oxford, to the Booker prize-winning novelist Kingsley Amis and Hilary Ann Bardwell. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, he embarked on a series of journalism jobs at the Times Literary Supplement and New Statesman, before publishing his debut, The Rachel Papers, in 1973.
Amis’s love of language over plot and narrative was highlighted by many mourning his death. The journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis said: “I am quietly devastated. Actually just loved the way he loved words. Dark, bleak and brilliantly funny. I grew up on #MartinAmis and will be for ever grateful.”
Enright told the Guardian: “It was fun to see his generation assert themselves in some new way against ponderous authority. Amis did it by voice alone. He made you feel that an act of expression was enough, more than enough – it had its own force and integrity, it had style.” In an interview with the Guardian in 2017, he said he missed the English, and Londoners especially: “I miss the wit … Americans aren’t as witty as Brits, because humour is about giving a little bit of offence. It’s an assertion of intellectual superiority.”
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