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  • Murdoch, Iris

    BORN: 1919, Dublin, Ireland

    DIED: 1999, Oxford, England

    NATIONALITY: Irish

    GENRE: Novels, essays, poems, plays

    MAJOR WORKS:
    Under the Net (1954)
    The Sandcastle (1957)
    A Severed Head (1961)
    The Black Prince (1973)
    The Sea, the Sea (1978)

    Overview

    One of the most prolific writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch wrote well-crafted fiction containing rich characters and complex plots woven together with elements from philosophy and psychology.

    In addition to more than two dozen novels, her body of work includes several plays and an assortment of critical studies. She was nominated for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize six times and eventually won the honor for The Sea, the Sea in 1978.

    Murdoch's achievements in philosophy have often been overshadowed by her reputation as a novelist and dramatist. Her philosophical and literary works are closely interrelated: Her novels and plays can be read as meditations on the proble