Literary giant Martin Amis given knighthood before death at 73
Martin Amis, the British literary giant whose work was respected by contemporaries across the creative sphere and who died last month, has been knighted. After publishing his first novel at the age of 24, he went on to write 13 more – as well as a memoir, two collections of stories and eight collections of non-fiction works. The author was given a knighthood before his death from cancer at the