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Iris Murdoch

(1919–1999) Novelist Ireland

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Iris Murdoch was a novelist from Ireland, best known for The Bell.

Quick Facts About Iris Murdoch

Born
July 15, 1919
Died
February 8, 1999
Nationality
Ireland
Profession
Novelist
Notable works
The Bell
Known for
The Bell, The Sovereignty of Good, The Sea, the Sea, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Spouse
John Bayley

About Iris Murdoch

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 (1954), 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".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

James Tait Black Memorial Prize Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong honorary doctor of Caen University Booker Prize

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