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J. G. Ballard was an English novelist and short story writer, known for his dystopian and transgressive fiction. He was born in Shanghai in 1930 and experienced the Japanese occupation and imprisonment during the Second World War.
Learn about the life and work of J. G. Ballard, a novelist, essayist and short-story writer who explored the impact of science and technology on modern life. Find out his biography, critical perspective, bibliography and awards.
- Shanghai, China
- Flamingo, Fourth Estate
Aug 5, 2024 · Learn about the life and career of J.G. Ballard, a British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. Explore his novels, short stories, essays, and autobiography, as well as his influence on film and culture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- April 19, 2009
- November 15, 1930
- High-Rise.
- Crash.
- Empire of the Sun.
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, Martin Amis (Introduction)
J.G. Ballard was a fiction and non-fiction author. Born in Shanghai, China, in 1930, Ballard witnessed firsthand the bombing of Pearl Harbour during the second world war. The author, then a young boy, and his family stayed in a civilian prison camp before relocating to England in 1946.
Feb 6, 2024 · Mark Blacklock, a literary scholar and editor of J. G. Ballard's nonfiction, selects five of his best books from different phases of his career. He explains why Ballard is a modern-day prophet, a genre reformist, a provocateur, and a surrealist.
Apr 20, 2009 · When J. G. Ballard, who passed away Sunday, at the age of seventy-eight, was trying to place “Crash,” his dystopian masterpiece of “auto” eroticism, with a publisher, he received a note ...
