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Iris Murdoch

1919 - 1999

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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iris Murdoch is the 740th most popular writer (up from 858th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 30th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Irish Writer.

Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher. She is most famous for her novel "The Sea, The Sea" which won the Booker Prize in 1978.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Iris Murdoch ranks 740 out of 7,302Before her are Abai Qunanbaiuly, Judah Halevi, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Louise Hay, and Emilio Salgari. After her are John le Carré, Sinclair Lewis, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Eduardo Galeano, Edmond Rostand, and Jean Froissart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Iris Murdoch ranks 31Before her are Lino Ventura, Margot Fonteyn, Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Pete Seeger, and Nat King Cole. After her are Donald J. Cram, Dino De Laurentiis, Abdirashid Shermarke, Andreas Papandreou, Leon Festinger, and Hans-Joachim Marseille. Among people deceased in 1999, Iris Murdoch ranks 29Before her are Georgios Papadopoulos, Joe DiMaggio, Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, Gerhard Herzberg, and Julius Nyerere. After her are Jerzy Grotowski, Daniel Nathans, Akio Morita, Mary Ainsworth, George C. Scott, and Sarah Knauss.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 42 out of 549Before her are Bertie Ahern (1951), Laurence Sterne (1713), Harald Gille (1103), Joseph Murphy (1898), Liam Cunningham (1961), and Lola Montez (1821). After her are Enya (1961), John Boland (1870), Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946), Cillian Murphy (1976), Francis Beaufort (1774), and Causantín mac Cináeda (836).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 11Before her are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), and Joseph Murphy (1898). After her are Saint Gall (550), Ethel Voynich (1864), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Thomas Moore (1779), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), and John Banville (1945).