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  1. Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband ...
  2. rsliterature.org

    From the publication of Under the Net in 1954 until she was overtaken by Alzheimer's in the mid 1990s, the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote prolifically, establishing herself as one of the great British fiction writers of the twentieth century. Her novels, which include The Bell, The Black Prince (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and The Sea, The Sea(winner of the ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    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 ...
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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 ...
  7. encyclopedia.com

    Iris MurdochBORN: 1919, Dublin, IrelandDIED: 1999, Oxford, EnglandNATIONALITY: IrishGENRE: Novels, essays, poems, playsMAJOR WORKS:Under the Net (1954)The Sandcastle (1957)A Severed Head (1961)The Black Prince (1973)The Sea, the Sea (1978) Source for information on Murdoch, Iris: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature dictionary.
  8. thebookerprizes.com

    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 ...
  9. Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality.

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