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Iris Murdoch

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Also known as Jean Iris Murdoch, Dame Iris Murdoch

Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

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Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a British author whose professional career spanned from 1953 to 1999. She is recognized as a member of the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Her bibliography includes 150 works, with notable titles such as *A severed head*, *The Sandcastle*, *Fairly Honourable Defeat*, *Довольно почетное поражение*, and *Дитя слова*.

Murdoch’s writings have been referenced by 586 other encyclopedia articles. Her philosophical perspectives are preserved in quotes, including the statement that the chief requirement of the good life is to live without any image of oneself. She also noted that we can only learn to love by loving, and that only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
15 July 1919
Died
8 February 1999
Works
150

Top works

  • A severed head
  • Довольно почетное поражение
  • Дитя слова
  • The Sandcastle
  • Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1919-07-15
Active to
1999-02-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
33
Total plays
375

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Ferric Reducing Ability of Plasma (FRAP) as a Measure of “Antioxidant Power”: The FRAP Assay

    · 1996 · cited 18,234x

  2. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 6,815x

  3. Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 6,625x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    · 2017 · cited 6,171x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    · 2016 · cited 5,699x

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Quotes

  • “He felt neither guilt nor distress at the pleasure with which he was now filled by the proximity of this young creature, and when he discovered in himself even physical symptoms of his inclination he did not take fright, but continued cheerfully and serenely to see Nick whenever the ordinary run of his duties suggested it, congratulating himself upon the newly achieved solidity and rational calm of his spiritual life.”
  • “The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.”
  • “We can only learn to love by loving.”
  • “Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
  • “Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”
  • “There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Unofficial Rose (1962), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher's Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iris Murdoch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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