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J.G. Ballard

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J. G. Ballard (1930 - 2009) was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbour the family was interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1946. In 1956 Ballard’s first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own experience in China, was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg. He is the author of many collections of short stories and novels, including Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

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Bibliography

Series

Empire of the Sun


A Literary Fiction series (1984 - 1991)

Standalone Fiction

The Drowned World

Drought

The Crystal World

The Atrocity Exhibition

Crash

Crash


Concrete Island

High-Rise

The Unlimited Dream Company

Hello America

The Day of Creation

Running Wild

Running Wild

Novella

Rushing to Paradise

Cocaine Nights

Super-Cannes

The Complete Short Stories

The Complete Short Stories

Short story collection

Millennium People

The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2

The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2

Short story collection

Kingdom Come

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

Short story collection

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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