JG Ballard, 1930-2009

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JG Ballard
JG Ballard

James Graham Ballard at home in Shepperton in 1988. The author is most famous for his books 'Empire of the Sun' which was published in 1984 and later turned into a film by Steven Spielberg, and 'Crash', a controversial novel about people with a sexual fetish for car crashes, published in 1973.

The great British writer predicted future worlds and chronicled his own wartime experiences

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