The late writer Martin Amis has received a knighthood in a wide-ranging King’s Birthday Honours list which recognises figures from fashion doyenne Anna Wintour and the head of MI6 to a 93-year-old lollipop lady from Northern Ireland. cahalmilmo reports
Sir Martin, who died from oesophageal cancer last month at the age of 73, is understood to have been informed by Whitehall officials by phone at his Florida home that he was to receive the honour as the seriousness of his illness became clear in the weeks prior to his death.
The knighthood is dated to the day before the author’s passing on 19 May to observe the convention that an honour cannot be conferred fully posthumously, although Sir Martin, described as a “literary agitator” in life, was told of the award several weeks before his death. Although rare, it is not the first time an award has been given in this manner because of the lengthy period of verification and confidentiality required by the honours process.
It means that the writer, who won a number of literary prizes and is regarded as one of the most important figures of post-war English fiction, matched his father, Sir Kingsley Amis, by becoming a knight of the realm, despite both men’s fondness forLondon Fields author is far from the sole figure from the world of literature and the arts to receive an honour in the Birthday Honours, the first of the reign of
, who formally grants the awards but has no role in selecting recipients put forward on behalf of the Cabinet Office.receives a knighthood alongside film director Stephen Frears, whose movies include, said he was “delighted” to receive the honour and would use it to highlight the perils of climate change, adding: “If we don’t do something radical about it now, within 10 years nothing will be the same.
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