LIFE & ARTS

British author Martin Amis dies aged 73 following battle with cancer

Acclaimed author and best friend of the late Christopher Hitchens died from cancer of the oesophagus at his home in Florida

Martin Amis with his Writer of The Year Award, at the 2010 GQ Men of the Year Awards in London. The British author has died aged 73, his publisher has confirmed.

British author Martin Amis has died aged 73, his publisher has confirmed to the PA news agency.

The renowned novelist and screenwriter published a series of novels and non-fiction works over his lifetime, with his best-known arguably being 1984’s Money and 1989’s London Fields.

In a statement to the PA news agency, Vintage Books said: “We are devastated at the death of our author and friend, Martin Amis: novelist, essayist, memoirist, critic, stylist supreme.

“It ...