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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.
Kingsley Amis (Londres, 16 de abril de 1922 — Londres, 22 de outubro de 1995) foi um ficcionista, poeta e cronista literário britânico [1]. Revelou-se como um dos grandes prosadores ingleses que surgiram depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, no grupo chamado Angry Young Men (Jovens Revoltados).
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.
12 de abr. de 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.
Best known novels of British writer Sir Kingsley William Amis include Lucky Jim (1954) and The Old Devils (1986). This English poet, critic, and teacher composed more than twenty-three collections, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism.
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.
Escritor inglês, Sir Kingsley Amis nasceu em 1922, em Londres, no seio de uma família da classe média baixa, da qual ascendeu sobretudo graças à sua força de vontade. Estudou na City of London School e no St. Jonh's College, em Oxford.
