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About Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Born in 1919 and active in the twentieth century, she is known for fiction that explored moral choice, desire, good and evil, and the hidden workings of the mind. Her first novel, Under the Net, appeared in 1954 and was later named by Modern Library among the best English-language novels of the century. The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize in 1978. She was made a Dame in 1987 for services to literature, and her work was later placed high on lists of major British writers.
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Books by Iris Murdoch
Under the net
1961
An Unofficial Rose
1962
The Bell
2000
The Italian Girl
1964
A Severed Head
1988