Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)
Autore di Il mare, il mare
Sull'Autore
Iris Murdoch was one of the twentieth century's most prominent novelists, winner of the Booker Prize for The Sea. She died in 1999. (Publisher Provided) Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 15, 1919. She was educated at Badminton School in Bristol and Oxford University, where she read mostra altro classics, ancient history, and philosophy. After several government jobs, she returned to academic life, studying philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948, she became a fellow and tutor at St. Anne's College, Oxford. She also taught at the Royal College of Art in London. A professional philosopher, she began writing novels as a hobby, but quickly established herself as a genuine literary talent. She wrote over 25 novels during her lifetime including Under the Net, A Severed Head, The Unicorn, and Of the Nice and the Good. She won several awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince in 1973 and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea in 1978. She died on February 8, 1999 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Iris Murdoch
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists. Based upon the Romanes Lecture (Oxford Paperbacks) (1977) 117 copie
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two: The Flight from the Enchanter, The Red and the Green, and The Time of the Angels (2018) 9 copie
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume One: Henry and Cato, The Italian Girl, and The Philosopher's Pupil (2018) 9 copie
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three: A Word Child, An Unofficial Rose, and Bruno's Dream (2018) 6 copie
La salvación por las palabras : ¿puede la literatura curarnos de los males de la filosofía? (2014) 6 copie
O Sino 4 copie
Canterburyjske priče 4 copie
Unicórnio 1 copia
Sartre'ın Yazarlığı ve Felsefesi 1 copia
Ο Μαύρος Πρίγκηπας 1 copia
Een filosofie van de liefde 1 copia
Henry e Cato 1 copia
Przypadkowy cz¿owiek 1 copia
İTALYAN KIZI 1 copia
THE SUBLIME AND THE GOOD - essay in one complete issue of Chicago Review, Autumn 1959 (1959) 1 copia
Existentialists and mystics : 1 copia
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch 1 copia
Tilfælghedens spil 1 copia
[Notebook : 34 pages occupied with lists of words in Russian with their English translations] 1 copia
[Make a joyful noise Vol. 2] 1 copia
[Make a joyful noise Vol. 1] 1 copia
Hver tar sin 1 copia
Murdoch, Iris Archive 1 copia
Against Dryness 1 copia
Os Olhos da Aranha Livro 1 1 copia
Çan 1 copia
Сочинения в 3-Х томах 1 copia
Opere correlate
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Collaboratore — 201 copie
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (1997) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Murdoch, Jean Iris
- Altri nomi
- Murdoch, Jean Iris
- Data di nascita
- 1919-07-15
- Data di morte
- 1999-02-08
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ashes scattered in the garden of Oxford Crematorium
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Ierland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- Alzheimer's disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Dublin, Ierland
Oxford, Engeland - Istruzione
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
philosopher - Relazioni
- Bayley, John (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature | 1975)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member | 1982)
St Anne's College, Oxford University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Booker Prize (1978)
- Agente
- Ed Victor
- Breve biografia
- Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, the only child of an Anglo-Irish family. When she was a baby, the family moved to London, where her father worked as a civil servant. She attended the Badminton School as a boarder from 1932 to 1938. In 1938, she enrolled at Oxford University, where she read Classics. She graduated with a First Class Honors degree in 1942 and got a job with the Treasury. In 1944, she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), working in Brussels, Innsbruck, and Graz for two years. She then returned to her studies and became a postgraduate at Cambridge University. In 1948, she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught philosophy until 1963. In 1956, she married John Bayley, a literary critic, novelist, and English professor at Oxford. She published her debut novel, Under the Net, in 1954 and went on to produce 25 more novels and additional acclaimed works of philosophy, poetry and drama. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982, and named a Dame Commander of Order of the British Empire in 1987. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1997 and died two years later.
Utenti
Discussioni
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Group Read, July 2018: Under The Net in 1001 Books to read before you die (Luglio 2018)
The Bell in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2018)
Musing on Murdoch in General in Iris Murdoch readers (Ottobre 2017)
The Nice and the Good in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2017)
The Italian Girl in Iris Murdoch readers (Novembre 2015)
The Sea, the Sea in Iris Murdoch readers (Settembre 2015)
The Sandcastle in Iris Murdoch readers (Gennaio 2015)
The Green Knight in Iris Murdoch readers (Mag 2014)
The Unicorn in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2014)
***Group Read, October 2013: The Bell by Iris Murdoch in 1001 Books to read before you die (Ottobre 2013)
The Book and the Brotherhood in Iris Murdoch readers (Ottobre 2013)
A Severed Head in Iris Murdoch readers (Mag 2013)
The Black Prince in Iris Murdoch readers (Mag 2013)
The Philosopher's Pupil in Iris Murdoch readers (Aprile 2013)
The Good Apprentice in Iris Murdoch readers (Marzo 2013)
Something Special in Iris Murdoch readers (Marzo 2013)
Henry and Cato in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2013)
A Word Child in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2013)
Bruno's Dream in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2013)
An Unofficial Rose in Iris Murdoch readers (Febbraio 2013)
Henry Cato in Iris Murdoch readers (Gennaio 2013)
Murdoch & Mayhem in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Dicembre 2012)
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- ISBN
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