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A Short Biography of Iris Murdoch

Author Name:

Iris Murdoch

Born As:

Jean

Other Names:

Iris Murdoch

Born:

15 Jul 1919

Died:

08 Feb 1999




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Novelist and philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

Under the Net - 1954
The Flight from the Enchanter - 1956
The Sandcastle - 1957
The Bell - 1958
A Severed Head - 1961
An Unofficial Rose - 1962
The Unicorn - 1963
The Italian Girl - 1964
The Red and the Green - 1965
The Time of the Angels - 1966
The Nice and the Good - 1968
Bruno's Dream - 1969
A Fairly Honourable Defeat - 1970
An Accidental Man - 1971
The Black Prince - 1973, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine - 1974, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction
A Word Child - 1975
Henry and Cato - 1976
The Sea, the Sea - 1978, winner of the Booker Prize
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
Something Special - Short story reprint, 1999; originally published 1957

Philosophy:

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist - 1953
The Sovereignty of Good - 1970
The Fire and the Sun - 1977
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals: Writings on Philosophy and Literature - 1992
Existentialists and Mystics - 1997

Plays:

A Severed Head - with J.B. Priestley, 1964
The Italian Girl - with James Saunders, 1969
The Three Arrows & The Servants and the Snow - 1973
The Servants - 1980
Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues - 1986
The Black Prince - 1987

Poetry collections:

A Year of Birds - 1978; revised edition, 1984
Poems by Iris Murdoch - 1997