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Sir Kingsley William Amis (eigentlich Kingley Amis; * 16. April 1922 in London; † 22. Oktober 1995 ebenda) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Dichter. Glück für Jim, sein mit dem Somerset Maugham Award ausgezeichneter Debütroman, machte ihn sowohl in Nordamerika als auch in Europa sehr bekannt.
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.
12. Apr. 2024 · Kingsley Amis (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London) was a novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s.
3,5 Sterne bei 17 Bewertungen. Autor von Lucky Jim, Anständig trinken und weiteren Büchern. Folgen. Lebenslauf. Kingsley Amis, geboren 1922 in London, besuchte die City of London School und das St. John’s College, Oxford. Nach seinem Debüt «Lucky Jim» (1954) verfasste er mehr als zwanzig Romane.
23. Apr. 2022 · “Kingsley’s novels”, says Martin Amis in his memoir “Experience”, “seemed to me in moral retreat.” Yet just when he had been written off, he was saved by his friends.
Kingsley Amis. 1922–1995. Poet, novelist, and critic Kingsley Amis was born in London, England in 1922. Amis’s father William was a clerk at Colman’s Mustard, earning the family a position among the lower middle class. Amis, an only child, characterized his childhood as bland and insular.
A novelist, poet and satirist, he wrote more than twenty novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, as well as literary criticism. In 2008, the Times ranked Kingsley Amis 13th on their list of the 50 greatest British authors since 1945.
