J. G. Ballard (1930–2009)
Autor de El imperio del sol
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de J. G. Ballard
The Dying Fall 6 copias
Research No. 8/9 5 copias
The Assassination Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race [short story] 5 copias, 2 reseñas
Pasaporte a la eternidad 4 copias
Saggezza stellare: nel segno di Lovecraft racconti soprannaturali per il nuovo millennio (1997) 4 copias
A Corrida Selvagem 3 copias
Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni [Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on es presenta entre el… (2008) 3 copias
Mitos Del Futuro Proximo 3 copias
Contos Ficção Científica 3 copias
The Autobiography of J.G.B. 2 copias
El huracán cósmico 2 copias
Urania 487 - GLI SCULTORI DI NUVOLE 2 copias
Journey Across A Crater 2 copias
Solens Rike 2 copias
J. G. Ballard. Cauchemar à quatre dimensions : Ethe Four-dimensional nightmaree. Traduit de l'anglais par… (1963) 1 copia
The Draining Lake 1 copia
Tutti i racconti (racconti) 1 copia
J・G・バラード短編全集1 (時の声) 1 copia
J・G・バラード短編全集3 (終着の浜辺) 1 copia
Terminal Beat 1 copia
BAL Super.Cannes 1 copia
PERANDORIA E DIELLIT 1 copia
Venise Des Écrivains 1 copia
Mobile [short story] 1 copia
La exposición de atrocidades 1 copia
Coitus 80 1 copia
The Drowned World [short story] 1 copia
My Invented Country 1 copia
Cataclismo Solar 1 copia
Billennium - J. G. Ballard 1 copia
Condominium 1 copia
Gente do mil©♭nio 1 copia
Potopljeni svet 1 copia
Imperiul soarelui 1 copia
Собрание сочинений 1 copia
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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 12th Series (1963) — Contribuidor — 121 copias, 2 reseñas
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000) — Contribuidor — 93 copias, 2 reseñas
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contribuidor — 85 copias, 2 reseñas
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 71 copias, 1 reseña
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume (1958) — Contribuidor — 68 copias
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contribuidor — 68 copias, 4 reseñas
The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Contribuidor — 51 copias
Twenty Houses of the Zodiac: Anthology of International Science Fiction (1979) — Contribuidor — 44 copias, 1 reseña
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuidor — 38 copias
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones; Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 14 copias, 1 reseña
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 68. Mythen der nahen Zukunft. (1984) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Fantastrenna — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autor, algunas ediciones — 2 copias, 1 reseña
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Ki ょ う も 気 God prepared a short masterpiece SF election (Kadokawa library) (2010) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Zärtlich war die Zukunft: Liebesgeschichten aus der Welt von morgen (1989) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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新潮 1990年 09月号 現代SFの冒険 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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季刊NW-SF 6号 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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季刊NW-SF 1号 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1966年05月号 (通巻81号) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1967年10月号 (通巻100号) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Ballard, James Graham
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-11-15
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2009-04-19
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK (paspoort)
China (geboren) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Shanghai, China
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- prostate cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Sjanghai, China
- Educación
- Queen Mary College, University of London
King's College, University of Cambridge
Leys School, Cambridge - Ocupaciones
- schrijver
- Relaciones
- Walsh, Claire (long-time companion)
- Organizaciones
- Ambit
Chemistry and Industry
Royal Air Force - Premios y honores
- Guardian Fiction Prize (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1984)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2001)
Golden PEN Award (2008)
BSFA Award for Best Novel (1979) - Agente
- Margaret Hanbury
- Biografía breve
- 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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que aún quedan en Shanghai ya casi se han acostumbrado a una
vida incierta y precaria en una isla de frágil neutralidad, mien-
tras desde las mansiones de la avenida Amherst y desde las li-
musinas americanas observan la brutal realidad de la ocupación
japonesa. Para Jim, de once años, nacido y criado en Shanghai,
ésta es la verdadera guerra. Los acontecimientos europeos,
vislumbrados en titilantes noticiarios, le parecen tan exóticos e
irreales como las epopeyas de Hollywood.
Tras el ataque japonés a Pearl Harbor y el hundimiento de los
buques de guerra americanos e ingleses anclados en el Yangtsé,
Jim se encuentra de pronto separado de sus padres y es llevado
al inquietante campo de Langua. Allí, en un mundo donde la nor-
ma cotidiana es la falta de alimentos, la violencia y la muerte,
Jim encuentra paz y seguridad... hasta que, en 1945, la primera
bomba atómica cae sobre Japón.… (más)