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Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953); Under the Net (1954); The Sovereignty of Good (1970); The Sea, the Sea (1978)
Spouse
John Bayley
(m. 1956)
Awards
Booker Prize
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy Virtue ethics Modern Platonism
Notable ideas
Sovereignty of the good Idea of perfection
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Dame Jean Iris MurdochDBE (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/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. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1]
Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Unofficial Rose (1962), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher's Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993).
As a philosopher, Murdoch's best known work is The Sovereignty of Good (1970). She was married for 43 years, until her death, to the literary critic and author John Bayley.
^(5 January 2008). "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011.
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