Kingsley Amis Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis. In 2008, "The Times" ranked Kingsley Amis ninth on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Kingsley Amis
Amis language the language, and it is not known how many of the 138,000 ethnic Amis are speakers. Amis is a dialect cluster. There are five dialects, Southern Amis, Tavalong-Vataan, Central Amis, Chengkung-Kwangshan, and Northern Amis (Nanshi Amis, which includes Nataoran). Sakizaya is a moribund language spoken among the northernmost ethnic Ami but is mutually unintelligible with the Northern Amis dialect. The following discussion covers the central dialect of Amis (Maddieson & Wright). The voiceless plosives and the affricate are released in clusters, so that "cecay" "one" is pronounced ; as is : "sepat" "four" is . The glottal stop is an