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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; 15 July – 8 February ) 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 (), was selected in as one of Modern Library&#;s best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In , she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In , The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of &#;The 50 greatest British writers since &#;.
Her other books include The Bell (), A Severed Head (), An Unofficial Rose (), The Red and the Green (), The Nice and the Good (), The Black Prince (), Henry and Cato (), The Philosopher&#;s Pupil (), The Good Apprentice (), The Book and the Brotherhood (), The Message to the Planet (), and The Green Knight ().
As a philosopher, Murdoch&#;s best-known work is The Sovereignty of Good (). She was married for 43 years, until her death, to the literary critic and author John Bayley.
Education and early life
Murdoch was born
Iris Murdoch
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Biography of Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was a renowned writer and philosopher. Born on July 15, in Dublin, Ireland, she attended Somerville College, Oxford University and completed her education at the University of Cambridge.
From to , Murdoch worked at the British Treasury. She then joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in London, Belgium, and Australia until In , she became a professor at Oxford University.
In , Murdoch married the English novelist and critic, D.O. Bailey. Her first published book was a work on Jean-Paul Sartre titled "Sartre: Romantic Rationalist" in In her novels, Murdoch followed an existentialist view of the world, depicting how individuals believe they consciously control their lives, while being influenced by subconscious or elemental forces.
For example, in her novel "A Severed Head" published in , several sophisticated individuals in the capital city engage in cozy and superficial love affairs, until they encounter a woman who lives with real and dangerous passion, causing them to realize their own insignificance. Murdoch's characters
The Flight from the Enchanter
Iris Murdoch: biography
Iris Murdoch was born Jean Iris Murdoch on July 15, , in Dublin, Ireland. She was the only child of Irene Alice Richardson, who was previously a singer, and Wills John Hughes Murdoch, a civil servant and a World War I veteran. The family moved to London while Murdoch was still a newborn as her father wanted to work in the British government.
Iris Murdoch wanted to be a writer since she was a child. She was dedicated to achieving this dream as she saw how her mother had to give up on her dream after having a child due to stereotypical gender norms. She went to a boarding school in Bristol and later went to study classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and then studied philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. During university, Iris Murdoch had briefly come into contact with famous thinkers such as Jean Paul-Sartre and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In she won a scholarship to study at Vassar College in New York but was denied the offer due to her support for the Communist Party of Great Britain. She eventually left the party; however, her short commitment to communism made her visits to the US difficult even after leaving.
Murdoch worked for the British Tre
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