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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. 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 ...
  4. 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.
  5. theparisreview.org

    Iris Murdoch has received many honors. In addition to the Booker Prize, she has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince and the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ...
  6. 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 ...
  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. 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.
  9. 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 ...
  10. link.springer.com

    Mar 5, 2023The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. ... and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Similar content being viewed by others 'We ...

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