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James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) [2] was an English novelist and short story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. [3] .
May 7, 2024 · J.G. Ballard was a British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. The son of a British business executive based in China, Ballard spent four years of his boyhood in a Japanese prison camp near Shanghai during World War II.
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Novelist, essayist and short-story writer J(ames) G(raham) Ballard was born in Shanghai, China on 15 November 1930. His family was interned by the Japanese during the Second World War, returning to Britain in 1946. Ballard read Medicine at King's College, Cambridge, and later studied English at London University.
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Apr 21, 2009 · April 21, 2009. J. G. Ballard, a writer of dystopian, literary fiction whose novels and short stories of a contemporary society in insidious thrall to technology, the media and relentless...
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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)
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Apr 20, 2009 · Books & Fiction. Short stories and poems, plus author interviews, profiles, and tales from the world of literature. When J. G. Ballard, who passed away Sunday, at the age of seventy-eight,...
Feb 6, 2024 · J. G. Ballard, the British science fiction writer and surrealist, is often credited as some kind of modern-day prophet. But what he was really doing was taking contemporary trends and extending them to their logical extremes, argues Mark Blacklock, the literary scholar and editor of a new collection of Ballard's nonfiction writing.
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