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Iris Murdoch


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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, grew up in London, and received her university education at Oxford and Cambridge. For many years she taught philosophy at Oxford. She was the author of twenty-six novels, and also wrote several works of philosophy, criticism, and drama.

She was an author of universal acclaim. Her novels tackled everyday ethical and moral concerns, exploring the function of myth in making sense of one's life. She won the Booker prize in 1978 for The Sea, The sea. In addition to books, she was also a playwright, her most successful play being "Servants and the Snow."
 

Awards: Booker (1978), Whitbread (1974), James Tait Black (1973)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Under the Net (1954)
   The Flight from the Enchanter (1955)
   The Sandcastle (1957)
   The Bell (1958)
   A Severed Head (1961)
   The Unofficial Rose (1962)
   The Unicorn (1963)
   The Italian Girl (1964)
   The Red and the Green (1965)
   The Time of the Angels (1965)
   The Nice and the Good (1968)
   Bruno's Dream (1969)
   A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970)
   An Accidental Man (1971)
   The Black Prince (1973)
   The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
   A Word Child (1975)
   Henry and Cato (1976)
   The Sea, the Sea (1978)
   Nuns and Soldiers (1980)
   The Philosopher's Pupil (1983)
   The Good Apprentice (1985)
   The Book and the Brotherhood (1987)
   The Message to the Planet (1989)
   The Green Knight (1993)
   Jackson's Dilemma (1995)
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Collections
   A Year of Birds (poems) (1978)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Something Special (1999)
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Anthologies edited
   Living on Paper (2015)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Iris Murdoch
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Best for Winter (1979)
A Selection from Twenty-five Years of Winter's Tales
edited by
A D MacLean

Awards
1978 Booker Prize : The Sea, the Sea
1974 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
1973 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : The Black Prince

Award nominations
1987 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Book and the Brotherhood
1985 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Good Apprentice
1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Philosopher's Pupil
1973 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Black Prince
1970 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Bruno's Dream
1969 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Nice and the Good


Iris Murdoch recommends
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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (1995)
Katharine Weber
"I much enjoyed this delightfully witty novel."
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Damage (1991)
Josephine Hart
"A passionate, elegant, ruthless story."
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The Book of Abraham (1986)
Marek Halter
"An extraordinary achievement."

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