Martin Amis: a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Amis, the author of 15 novels and one of the leading voices of his generation, has died aged 73 Michael Williams Main image: Amis at the Edinburgh international book festival in August 2014. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Sun 21 May 2023 06.38 AEST Last modified on Sun 21 May 2023 08.14 AEST Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) with his wife Hilary and children Sally, Philip and Martin Amis (right) outside their house in Swansea. Photograph: Daniel Farson/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis in 1983. Photograph: Penske Media/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis at a Tatler party in 1980. Photograph: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis at his typewriter in 1981. Photograph: Martin Lawrence/Daily Mail/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis and Fay Weldon were among among the six finalists in a novel competition organised by the Mail on Sunday. Photograph: Steve Bent/ANL/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis in 1985. Photograph: David Montgomery/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis with his father at the Booker Prize award ceremony in 1991. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Amis with his GQ Writer of the Year award in 2010. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter At the launch party For Tina Brown’s book The Diana Chronicles in 2007. Photograph: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On stage at the Hay festival in 2008. Photograph: Jeff Morgan/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter With Salman Rushdie at the British book awards at the London Hilton in 1995. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Signing copies of his book The Zone of Interest in Florida in 2014. Photograph: WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Another shot from the launch party for The Diana Chronicles. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Dancing with Nigella Lawson at a launch party for John Diamond’s book Snake Oil in 2001. Photograph: Richard Young/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter With Thandiwe Newton and Sophie Dahl at the launch of Writing on the Edge, a collection of essays, in 2010. Photograph: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter With Melvyn Bragg for an edition of The South Bank Show in 1989. Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter With wife Isabel Fonseca at a Vanity Fair dinner in 1995. Photograph: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Another moment from the 2008 Hay festival. Photograph: Jeff Morgan 09/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Photographed for the Guardian in 2017. Photograph: Martin Adolfsson/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share on Twitter At a book festival in Colombia in 2009. Photograph: Ricardo Maldonado/EPA/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Topics Martin Amis