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    Iris Murdoch

    Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Her other books include The Bell, A Severed Head, An Unofficial Rose, The Red and the Green, The Nice and the Good, The Black Prince, Henry and Cato, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, The Message to the Planet, and The Green Knight. As a philosopher, Murdoch's best-known work is The Sovereignty of Good. Wikipedia

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    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels ...
  3. thecollector.com

    Dec 2, 2023A plaque commemorating Iris Murdoch, photo by David Kernan, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons. Under the Net was Murdoch's first novel. It concerns a writer's fruitless attempts to, at various points, secure a stable living, make something of himself as a writer, rekindle a friendship stupidly tossed away, rekindle a romance stupidly tossed away ...
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    Nov 9, 2023Iris Murdoch was a productive writer of 26 novels and five works of philosophy. The critic Francis Wyndham pictured her 'seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal'. She worked and reworked her themes over four decades, forever seeking to perfect her ...
  6. britannica.com

    Feb 4, 2025Iris Murdoch (born July 15, 1919, Dublin, Ireland—died February 8, 1999, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a British novelist and philosopher noted for her psychological novels that contain philosophical and comic elements.. After an early childhood spent in London, Murdoch went to Badminton School, Bristol, and from 1938 to 1942 studied at Somerville College, Oxford.
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  7. literaryladiesguide.com

    Iris Murdoch: As I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson (2003) Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley (2012) Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration by Miles Leeson (2017) More information and sources. Wikipedia; Reader discussion of Iris Murdoch's works on Goodreads; 1990 interview in The Paris Review; Iris Murdoch at 100 in The Guardian
  8. literariness.org

    A knowledge of Iris Murdoch's (15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) philosophical and critical essays is invaluable for the reader wishing to understand her fiction. ... According to Murdoch, literature is the most important art because of its unique ability to shed light on the human condition: "The most essential and fundamental aspect of ...
  9. prindleinstitute.org

    "Literature" wrote Iris Murdoch, "is an education in how to picture and understand human situations." This year marks 100 years since her birth; presenting an opportunity to reflect upon her unique philosophical perspective and the things it can still teach us.
  10. goodreads.com

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.
  11. philpapers.org

    The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. ... drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing ...
  12. encyclopedia.com

    Iris Murdoch. BORN: 1919, Dublin, Ireland DIED: 1999, Oxford, England NATIONALITY: Irish GENRE: Novels, essays, poems, plays MAJOR WORKS: Under the Net (1954) The Sandcastle (1957) A Severed Head (1961) The Black Prince (1973) The Sea, the Sea (1978). Overview. One of the most prolific writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch wrote well-crafted fiction containing rich ...

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