British writer Martin Amis died at his home in Florida on Friday at the age of 73, the Booker Prize and several media outlets announced on Saturday.
“He was one of the most celebrated and commented on authors of the last 50 years,” said the institution behind the prestigious British literary prize.
His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told the New York Times and the Guardian that the author of Money, Money (1984) and London Fields (1989) died of esophageal cancer.
His death occurred on the day of the presentation in Cannes of a film inspired by his book of the same name, The Zone of Interest (2014) and directed by Jonathan Glazer.
The novel is set in Auschwitz and tells the story of a Nazi officer who falls in love with the wife of the death camp commander.
The Nazis defined the 40 square kilometer area around the Auschwitz concentration camp as an “area of interest”.
Born in Wales in 1949, Martin Amis redefined British fiction of the 1980s and 1990s with his dark and acidic style.
In particular, he wrote a book about the 9/11 tragedy entitled The Second Plane, in which he compiled articles, short stories, and essays.
The Briton, who has written around ten novels, was nominated twice for the Booker Prize in 1991 for “The Arrow of Time” and in 2003 for “Chien Jaune”.
In 2008, The Times named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.