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J. G. Farrell

Index J. G. Farrell

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 65 relations: A House for Mr Biswas, Albert Camus, Alison Lurie, Bantry Bay, Bengal, Bernard Bergonzi, Block Island, Booker Group, Booker Prize, Brasenose College, Oxford, British Empire, British undergraduate degree classification, Charles Sturridge, Christopher Morahan, Church of Ireland, Colonialism, Cork University Press, County Cork, County Wexford, Detroit, Distant Early Warning Line, Dublin, Durrus, Existentialism, Foreign Affairs (novel), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Harkness Fellowship, Ian Hamilton (critic), Indian Rebellion of 1857, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Spurling (author), Kanpur, Knightsbridge, Lancashire, Liverpool, Lolita, Lost Man Booker Prize, Lucknow, Malcolm Lowry, Margaret Drabble, New Statesman, Paul Scott (novelist), Polio, Postcolonial literature, Rossall School, Salman Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, Secondary education in France, Sepoy, Sheep's Head, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. Accidental deaths in the Republic of Ireland
  3. Novelists from Liverpool

A House for Mr Biswas

A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.

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Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic.

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Bantry Bay

Bantry Bay is a bay located in County Cork, Ireland.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bernard Bergonzi

Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet.

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Block Island

Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point.

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Booker Group

Booker Group Limited is a British wholesale distributor, and subsidiary of Tesco.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom.

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Charles Sturridge

Charles B. G. Sturridge (born 24 June 1951) is an English director and screenwriter.

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Christopher Morahan

Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was a British stage and television director and production executive.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann,; Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Cork University Press

Cork University Press (CUP) is a publisher located in Cork, Ireland.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Distant Early Warning Line

The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska (see Project Stretchout and Project Bluegrass), in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Durrus

Durrus is a village and civil parish in West Cork in Ireland.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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Foreign Affairs (novel)

Foreign Affairs is a 1984 novel by American writer Alison Lurie that concerns itself with American academics in England.

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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber.

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Harkness Fellowship

The Harkness Fellowship (previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship) is a program run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City.

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Ian Hamilton (critic)

Robert Ian Hamilton (24 March 1938 – 27 December 2001) was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

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John Spurling (author)

John Antony SpurlingInternational Who's Who of Writers and Authors, 23rd edition, Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, p. 685 (born 17 July 1936) is a Kenyan-English playwright and author who has written thirty-five plays and seven books.

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Kanpur

Kanpur, formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is a large industrial city located in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia.

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Lost Man Booker Prize

The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.

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Malcolm Lowry

Clarence Malcolm Lowry (28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.

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Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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Paul Scott (novelist)

Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 1 March 1978) was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. J. G. Farrell and Paul Scott (novelist) are Booker Prize winners.

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Polio

Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Postcolonial literature

Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica.

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Rossall School

Rossall School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) for 0–18 year olds, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. J. G. Farrell and Salman Rushdie are Booker Prize winners.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. J. G. Farrell and Samuel Beckett are 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish novelists and Irish male novelists.

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Secondary education in France

In France, secondary education is in two stages.

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Sepoy

Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.

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Sheep's Head

Sheep's Head, also known as Muntervary (Rinn Mhuintir Bháire), is the headland at the end of the Sheep's Head peninsula situated between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in County Cork, Ireland.

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Simon Raven

Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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The Gates of Ivory

The Gates of Ivory is a 1991 novel by novelist Margaret Drabble.

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The Listener (magazine)

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Siege of Krishnapur

The Siege of Krishnapur is a novel by J. G. Farrell, first published in 1973.

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The Singapore Grip

The Singapore Grip is a novel by J. G. Farrell.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland.

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Troubles (novel)

Troubles is a 1970 novel by J. G. Farrell.

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Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. J. G. Farrell and V. S. Naipaul are Booker Prize winners.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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See also

Accidental deaths in the Republic of Ireland

Novelists from Liverpool

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Farrell

Also known as J.G. Farrell, JG Farrell, James Gordon Farrell.

, Simon Raven, Singapore, The Gates of Ivory, The Listener (magazine), The New York Times Book Review, The Observer, The Siege of Krishnapur, The Singapore Grip, The Times Literary Supplement, Third World, Trinity College Dublin, Troubles (novel), Under the Volcano, V. S. Naipaul, Vladimir Nabokov.