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Iris Murdoch

1919 - 1999

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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iris Murdoch has received more than 1,784,345 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Iris Murdoch is the 1,019th most popular writer (down from 751st in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 28th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Irish Writer.

Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher. She is most famous for her novel "The Sea, The Sea" which won the Booker Prize in 1978.

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  • 55

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  • 4.46

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  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Iris Murdoch ranks 1,019 out of 5,755Before her are Dobrica Ćosić, Tibor Sekelj, Harry Mulisch, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Veronica Franco, and James Hadley Chase. After her are Bar Hebraeus, Julien Green, Derek Walcott, Bernhard Schlink, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, and Ernst Toller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Iris Murdoch ranks 43Before her are Daniel Bell, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Jackie Robinson, Hermine Braunsteiner, Pete Seeger, and Oleg Penkovsky. After her are César Manrique, Chavela Vargas, James Lovelock, Georges Duby, Lauri Törni, and Martin Balsam. Among people deceased in 1999, Iris Murdoch ranks 35Before her are Julius Nyerere, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Mary Ainsworth, Hélder Câmara, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Fred Trump. After her are Gerhard Herzberg, Benjamin Bloom, Henry Way Kendall, Henri, Count of Paris, Nathalie Sarraute, and Oliver Reed.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 40 out of 501Before her are Bob Geldof (1951), Brendan (484), Rory Gallagher (1948), Edmund the Martyr (841), Saint Gall (550), and Eileen Gray (1878). After her are Dolores O'Riordan (1971), Bertie Ahern (1951), Columba (521), Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Brendan Gleeson (1955), and Richard Cantillon (1680).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Iris Murdoch ranks 11Before her are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), and Saint Gall (550). After her are Ethel Voynich (1864), Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Charles Maturin (1780), and Oliver Goldsmith (1728).