Jerry Bauer | J. G. Ballard (1930–2009)Incluye los nombres: JGBalard, J.G. Ballad, J.G. BALLAR, J G Ballard, J. G. Ballard, J. B. Ballard, Ballard J. G., J. G. Ballard, J. C. Ballard, Ballard Jim G. ... (Ver la lista completa), Jim G. Ballard, J.G.バラード, James G. Ballard, James G. Ballard, James G. Ballard, Jg Et Al Ballard, James Gr. Ballard, J.G. バラード, et al J.G. Ballard, J. G. バラード, J・G バラード, J. G. バラード, BALLARD James Graham, James Graham Ballard, J・G・バラード, James Graham Ballard, Ballard James Graham, James Grahham Ballard, J・G・バラード, J. G. Ballard Contribution, Баллард Джеймс, Джеймс Грэм Баллард, Chris Beckett (editor) J. G. Ballard 30,782 (51,878) | 985 | 550 | (3.62) | 194 | 0 | J. G. Ballard was born to British parents in Shanghai, China on November 15, 1930. While a child during World War II, he spent four years in a Japanese POW camp. This experience was the basis for the emotionally moving novel Empire of the Sun, which he adapted into a successful movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. Before becoming a full-time writer, he studied medicine at Cambridge University and served as a pilot in the British Royal Air Force. Ballard is best known for his science fiction writings. His early works were heavily influenced by surrealism. Most of his novels deal with death and destruction of the human spirit. Novels such as Crash, Concrete Island, and High Rise portray a society that is devolving into barbaric chaos. Crash was made into a movie by David Cronenberg in 1996. The Drowned World describes an apocalyptic society, with a hero that ushers in the destruction of the world. His novel Empire of the Sun was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Empire of the Sun was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1987, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim (Ballard). Ballard moved away from science fiction, but he is still considered one of the leading authors of the genre. He died on April 19, 2009 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) — biografía de El imperio del sol … (más) |
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J. G. Ballard tiene 4 eventos antiguos. (show)  It's the End of the World As We Know It - discussing THE DROUGHT SUN, JUNE 15 at 2PM Join Alexander and Bosco the third Sunday of each month at 2pm as they discuss Post Apocalyptic Fiction. This month's book will be The Drought by J.G. Ballard. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)
 Oakland - The Seated Diesels discuss "Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Seated Diesels back to the store to discuss Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard on Tuesday, August 20th at 7 pm. Shanghai, 1941 — a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)
Octavia Books Science Fiction Book Club- Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard. Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni = An autopsy of the new millenium (exposició/exhibition)
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| Biografía breve | Información del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma. Born and brought up in colonial Shanghai comfort, young James Graham Ballard saw his life change forever when, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces swept into the city. The three years he spent in an internment camp moulded his view of "a world turned up-side down" and have constantly influenced his fiction.
Back in Britain, he abandoned his medical studies at Cambridge to become a full-time writer, and his first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. As with many of his works, the wanderings of his characters' minds are charted as minutely as the external world they inhabit. The Drought, The Wind from Nowhere and The Crystal World all strengthened his reputation for bleak but beautiful chronicles of a post-Hiroshima age.
After the death of his wife in 1964, Ballard retreated to Shepperton by the River Thames to raise his three children. But if his surroundings were sleepy and suburban, his imagination remained at the cutting edge. When he produced Crash in 1973, legend has it that one publisher marked in her notes, "writer beyond psychiatric help". Crash, dealing with the erotic possibilities of car accidents, was well ahead of its time. Ballard himself called it "the first pornographic book based on technology" and David Cronenberg's film version in 1996 provoked six months' deliberation for the British censor.
Steven Spielberg's lavish production of Empire of the Sun, Ballard's autobiographical account of his childhood, brought the author financial security and public clamour for his earlier works. At this point, Ballard could have easily put down his pen.
Instead, he has continued to chart the struggle of a restless society, one caught between a need for security and a craving for the reckless. His latest novel, Millennium People, once again describes characters drawn to violence through technologically-induced boredom.
He once called himself "an architect of dreams, sometimes nightmares" and his seeming obsession with disaster, depravity and dystopia is not to everyone's taste. But, in this pop-bang throwaway age, JG Ballard remains curious and alert, reminding us, too, that "imagination itself is an endangered species".  | |
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