Published: May 21, 2023
Fellow writers including Salman Rushdie express their admiration for British novelist who has died aged 73
Salman Rushdie has led tributes to Martin Amis after the celebrated author died aged 73.
Rushdie said Amis, who died at his home in Florida on Saturday, had a unique literary voice and that “it was unwise to try to imitate him”, adding in a piece for the New Yorker: “He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave behind a shelf of books – to be able to say: ‘From here to here, it’s me.’ His voice is silent now. His friends will miss him terribly. But we have the shelf.”
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