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J. G. Ballard
| Full Name: |
James
Graham
Ballard |
| Born: |
November 15, 1930
Shanghai, China |
| Died: |
April 19, 2009
London, England, UK |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
J. G. BALLARD was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sunwon the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel Crash was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography Miracles of Life was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, Extreme Metaphors, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.
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