J.G. Ballard (November 15 – April 19, 2009) was an author best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun." He was born in Shanghai but later moved to London and became a professional writer known for his controversial...
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J.G. Ballard (November 15 – April 19, 2009) was an author best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun." He was born in Shanghai but later moved to London and became a professional writer known for his controversial stories.
Bea Ballard has written a moving tribute to her father, British author J. G. Ballard, who passed away earlier this year: In 2009 the world lost one of its most original and brilliant authors, JG Ballard. But my siblings and I lost our father, our dearest Daddy. To the world he was this unique writer, with a huge international following, but to us he was simply a father, and the best you could ever hope for. He had raised three of us single-handedly following my mother's premature death when... Read Full Story
An example of Austin Kleon's 'Newspaper Blackout' poetry Literature: J. G. Ballard : Simon Reynolds speaks to Ballardian.com J. G. Ballard : Issue four of new journal, Kill Author , focusses on Ballard and his work J. G. Ballard : Jacob Silverman on J. G. Ballard and Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : Franz Wright's poem, 'I Dreamed I Met William Burroughs' William S. Burroughs : Podcast of Burroughs on Jack Kerouac Franz Kafka : The Los Angeles Times on new Kafka translations Paul... Read Full Story
Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and the forthcoming BLDGBLOG Book , previewed on Omnivoracious last week . I thought his unique perspective would be of interest to readers curious about J.G. Ballard and his worldview. I hope you enjoy his short essay. It encapsulates a lot of the elements I find fascinating about Ballard. - Jeff VanderMeer
Between the Tower and the Parking Lot: A Spatial Appreciation of J.G. Ballard by Geoff Manaugh
J.G. Ballard, who died on Sunday at the age of... Read Full Story
JG Ballard, a cult author best known for his book "Empire of the Sun" about his childhood struggle to survive in a Japanese internment camp, has died after a long illness, his agent said. He was 78. Margaret Hanbury announced his death from cancer on Sunday with "great sadness", saying he had been ill "for several years". Hanbury, who had been Ballard's agent for more than 25 years, described his "acute and visionary" observation of the world, which led him to produce disquieting novels and... Read Full Story
Writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire Of The Sun," which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006. He had been ill "for several years" and died in London at the home of his long-term partner, his agent Margaret Hanbury said. She did not give the cause of death. "His acute and visionary observation of contemporary life was distilled into a... Read Full Story
'[J. G. Ballard's agent], Margaret Hanbury, said tonight that it was "with great sadness" that the 78-year-old author had passed away yesterday morning after several years of ill health. 'Hanbury, who worked with Ballard for more than 25 years, said he was a "brilliant, powerful" novelist. "JG Ballard has been a giant on the world literary scene for more than 50 years. Following his early novels of the 60s and 70s, his work then reached a wider audience with the publication of Empire of the... Read Full Story
(The cover art for The Collected Stories of J.G. Ballard)
J.G. Ballard (November 15, 1930 to April 19, 2009) rewired the brains of generations of readers and writers. A member of the largely British New Wave movement of the 1960s, Ballard wrote mind-bending stories that changed reader perceptions of space and time, along with novels that dealt with every conceivable major theme of the twentieth century. His fictionalized memoir of his childhood, Empire of the Sun (1984), was made into... Read Full Story
( Author Rhys Hughes' tribute incorporates the elements of the surreal and dark humor that made Ballard's fiction so unique: "My tribute to J.G. Ballard who has just died... This photo cost £2.05 to create [£1 for the toy car, 85p for the firelighters stuffed into its chassis and 20p for the box of matches to ignite the wreck].")
On Sunday, the brilliant author J.G. Ballard passed away at the age of 78. Here at Omnivoracious we ran a tribute in which we wrote in part, "rewired the brains... Read Full Story
Will Self has written a short piece in today's Guardian newspaper, expressing his deep admiration for the British writer J. G. Ballard, who passed away earlier this year. The article anticipates what would have been Ballard's 79th birthday on 15 November, and declares him the 'last great English avatar of the avant garde'. Self acknowledges the contribution Ballard has made to 'literature, to the visual arts, to architectural theory and even philosophy', before elaborating on the profound... Read Full Story
From Will Self's tribute to the author J. G. Ballard, who passed away this week: 'I had absorbed Ballard's fictional work in my teens, undifferentiated from the science fiction it was shelved alongside in the local library. I reread Ballard in my twenties, when his underground reputation was steadily increasing — and found in the books a vital spur to my own fictional work. Like many before me, I went to interview Ballard (for this newspaper), and was struck by the strange dichotomy between... Read Full Story
