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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 ...
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    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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  5. thebookerprizes.com

    Nov 9, 2023Learn where to start with Iris Murdoch, the philosopher-novelist who wrote 26 books, seven of which were nominated for the Booker Prize. Discover her themes of love, goodness, and life versus art, and her distinctive style of comedy and deception.
  6. plato.stanford.edu

    Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy. Unusual for her times, she combined her grounding in Wittgensteinian and linguistic/analytic philosophy with a strong influence of 19th and 20 th century Continental philosophy, Christian religion and thought, and Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.
  7. simple.wikipedia.org

    Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British author of novels about good and evil, sexual relationships and the power of the unconscious. She was a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and wrote classics such as Under the Net, The Black Prince and The Sea, the Sea.
  8. 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.

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