Novelist J.G. Ballard Has Died

J.G. Ballard, the influential novelist and namesake of the literary term “Ballardian,” has died.

His novels included “Crash,” “Empire of the Sun,” and “The Drowned World.” His novel “Super Cannes” won the Commonwealth Writers Prize after its publication in 2000. According to the BBC, Ballard’s agent, Margaret Hanbury, noted that the author had been sick for a few years.

Here’s the Collins English Dictionary tribute to the author’s signature style: “BALLARDIAN: (adj) 1. of James Graham Ballard (J.G. Ballard; born 1930), the British novelist, or his works. (2) resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels & stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.” (Photo via, link via.)

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