“J G Ballard, the author who has died aged 78, was best known for his two fictionalised autobiographies, Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women; the former, which told of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai, became an international best-seller and was later made into a film by Steven Spielberg.”
Read J G Ballard’s obituary in The Telegraph.
Very, very sad. In years to come, he will be seen as one of the most important novelists of the late 20th century.
Read Patrick Chapman’s tribute to J G Ballard on Todd Swift’s blog, Eyewear:
http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2009/04/chapman-on-ballard.html