British writer Martin Amis died Friday at his home in Florida at the age of 73, his wife and organizers of the Booker Prize for Literature said.

“He was one of the most outstanding writers of the last 50 years,” says the founder of the prestigious British award. His obscene handwriting earned him the label of British literature’s “terrible child”, and his physical appearance earned him the title of “Literature’s Mick Jagger”.

Amis’ wife, fellow author Isabelle Fonseca, told The New York Times and The Guardian that the author of Money and Time’s Arrow suffered from esophageal cancer.

Amis died on the day that the film directed by Jonathan Glaser, The Zone of Interest, based on his book, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

The British writer was born on August 25, 1949 in Oxford. He was the son of writer Kingsley Amis and was shaped by his relationship with his father in his early years. In later years he spent a year at Princeton and then lived with his family in Cambridge until the age of 12. His childhood shaped him and gave him supplies for his professional life.

Among other things, he wrote a book about the September 11 tragedy called “The Second Plane” with articles, essays and news on the subject. He wrote about 12 novels and was twice nominated for the Booker Prize. The Times listed him in 2008 as one of the fifty most important post-war British writers.

Martin Amis was translated into Greek and enjoyed special love. To date, his books have been published: Arrow of Time (1995), Other People (1995), Information (1998), Night Train (1998), Money (1999), Private Meetings ( 2007), “Summer of Love”. (2011).

He was awarded the Somerset Mother’s Prize (1974) for his book Rachel’s Papers (1973), and his novel Time’s Arrow (1991) was nominated for the Booker Prize. He also published Dead Babies (1975), Success (1978), Other People: A Mystery Story (1981), Money: A Suicide Note (1984), London Fields (1989), Yellow dog (2003), House of Meeting (2006), The Pregnant Widow (2010), Lionel Asbo: State in England (2012), Zone of Interest (2014), Inside Story (2020) , a collection of short stories Einstein’s Monsters (1987), and essays Invasion of Space Invaders: A Guide for Addicts (1982), Idiot Hell and Other Visits to America (1986) and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov (1993 ).