The British writer Martin Amis died at the age of 73 at his residence in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.
According to the New York Times, which confirmed the news, the author of "London Fields" died on Friday of esophageal cancer, as confirmed by his wife, also writer Isabel Fonseca.
His death comes a day after the screening at the Cannes Film Festival of director Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest," a film adaptation of the 2014 book of the same name.
Author of novels such as "Money", "London Fields" and "Night Train", he is considered the reinventer of British narrative in the 80s and 90s.
Born on August 25, 1949, Amis had a link with literature from an early age, as his father, Kingsley, was a prestigious writer and university professor. The author of "Money" defined him as "the best comic novelist of his generation".
He was educated at schools in Britain, Spain and the USA before going on to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in English. He credited his stepmother, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, for waking him up to literature as a drifting teenager.
His literature emphasized the excesses of late capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirized through caricature depictions. Already with his first novel his first "The Book of Rachel", published in 1973 with only 24 years, concentrated praise from critics and the Somerset Maugham Award for his satirical and skeptical vision of the sexual revolution, the seventies, rock & roll, the conflict between generations and the myth of youth.
Amis was often compared to his father, Kingsley Amis, who won the Booker Prize in 1986 for his novel The Old Devils. Although the young Amis never won the Booker, he was shortlisted for his 1991 novel Time's Arrow, a portrait of a Nazi war criminal told in reverse chronological order, and shortlisted in 2003 for his novel Yellow Dog.
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