J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009 )^[2] adalah seorang novelis dan penulis cerita pendek asal Inggris yang terkenal dengan karya fiksi provokatif yang mengeksplorasi hubungan antara psikologi manusia, teknologi, seks, dan media massa.^[3] Dia mengusung genre fiksi ilmiah, New Wave, dan fiksi apokaliptik seperti pada novel The Drowned World (1962), tetapi kemudian menimbulkan kontroversi lewat karya-karyanya pada koleksi cerita pendek eksperimental The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), salah satunya pada cerita Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, dan Crash (1973), berkisah tentang sekelompok pemberontak yang mengalami fetish terhadap mobil.

J. G. Ballard
Lahir	James Graham Ballard (1930-11-15)15 November 1930 Shanghai International Settlement, Republik China (sekarang Shanghai, Tiongkok)
Meninggal	19 April 2009(2009-04-19) (umur 78) London, England, UK
Pemakaman	Kensal Green Cemetery
Pekerjaan	Novelis, satiris, penulis cerita pendek, esais
Almamater	King's College, Cambridge Queen Mary, Universitas London[1]
Genre	Utopia Satir Fiksi ilmiah Transgressive fiction
Gerakan	New Wave
Karya terkenal	Crash Empire of the Sun High-Rise The Atrocity Exhibition
Pasangan	Helen Mary Matthews ​ ​ (m. 1955; meninggal 1964)​
Anak	3, termasuk Bea Ballard

Pada tahun 1984, Ballard memenangkan pengakuan yang lebih luas untuk novel Empire of the Sun, sebuah kisah semi-otobiografi tentang pengalaman seorang anak laki-laki Inggris di Shanghai selama Pendudukan Jepang;^[4] ceritanya diadaptasi menjadi film yang disutradarai oleh Steven Spielberg. Perjalanan penulis dari masa muda hingga paruh baya akan dicatat, dengan infleksi fiksi, di The Kindness of Women (1991) dan dalam otobiografi langsung di Miracles of Life (2008). Beberapa karya awalnya telah diadaptasi menjadi film, termasuk adaptasi kontroversial David Cronenberg tahun 1996 berjudul Crash dan adaptasi Ben Wheatley di film tahun 2015 berdasarkan novel High-Rise.

Referensi

1. "Alumni and Fellows". Queen Mary University of London. Diakses tanggal 3 July 2014.
2. Jones, Thomas (10 April 2008). "Thomas Jones reviews 'Miracles of Life' by J.G. Ballard · LRB 10 April 2008". London Review of Books. hlm. 18–20.
3. Dibbell, Julian (February 1989). "Weird Science". Spin Magazine.
4. "Empire of the Sun (1984)". Ballardian. 16 September 2006. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 20 June 2020. Diakses tanggal 3 July 2014. Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)

Daftar pustaka

• Ballard, J.G. (1984). Empire of the Sun. ISBN 0-00-654700-1.
• Ballard, J.G. (1991). The Kindness of Women. ISBN 0-00-654701-X.
• Ballard, J.G. (1993). The Atrocity Exhibition (expanded and annotated edition). ISBN 0-00-711686-1.
• Ballard, J.G. (2006). "Look back at Empire". The Guardian, 4 March 2006.
• Baxter, J. (2001). "J.G. Ballard". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• Baxter, J. (ed.) (2008). J.G. Ballard, London: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-9726-0
• Baxter, John (2011). The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-86352-6
• Brigg, Peter (1985). J.G. Ballard. Rpt. Borgo Press/Wildside Press. ISBN 0-89370-953-0
• Collins English Dictionary. ISBN 0-00-719153-7. Quoted in Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• Cowley, J. (2001). "The Ballard of Shanghai jail". Review of The Complete Stories by J.G. Ballard. The Observer, 4 November 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• Delville, Michel. J.G. Ballard. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998.
• Gasiorek, A. (2005). J. G. Ballard. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7053-2
• Hall, C. "Extreme Metaphor: A Crash Course in the Fiction of JG Ballard". Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• Livingstone, D.B. (1996?). "Prophet with Honour". Retrieved 12 March 2006.
• Luckhurst, R. (1998). The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-831-7
• McGrath, R. JG Ballard Book Collection. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). The JG Ballard Book. The Terminal Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-9918665-1-9
• O'Connell, Mark (23 April 2020). "Why we are living in Ballard's world". Critic at Large. New Statesman. 149 (5514): 54–57.
• Oramus, Dominika. Grave New World. Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2007.
• Pringle, David, Earth is the Alien Planet: J.G. Ballard's Four-Dimensional Nightmare, San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1979.
• Pringle, David (ed.) and Ballard, J.G. (1982). "From Shanghai to Shepperton". Re/Search 8/9: J.G. Ballard: 112–124. ISBN 0-940642-08-5.
• Rossi, Umberto (2009). "A Little Something about Dead Astronauts", Science-Fiction Studies, No. 107, 36:1 (March), 101–120.
• Stephenson, Gregory, Out of the Night and into the Dream: A Thematic Study of the Fiction of J.G. Ballard, New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: The JG Ballard Anthology 2014. The Terminal Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9918665-4-0
• V. Vale (ed.) (2005). "J.G. Ballard: Conversations" (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-13-0
• V. Vale (ed.) and Ryan, Mike (ed). (2005). "J.G. Ballard: Quotes" (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-12-2

• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: The JG Ballard Anthology 2015. The Terminal Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-9940982-0-7
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: The JG Ballard Anthology 2016. The Terminal Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-9940982-5-2
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology 2018. The Terminal Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-9940982-7-6
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology 2019. The Terminal Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-7753679-0-1
• McGrath, Rick (ed.). Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology 2020. The Terminal Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1-7753679-5-6

Pranala luar

• Karya oleh/tentang J. G. Ballard di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• J. G. Ballard di Curlie (dari DMOZ)
• J. G. Ballard di British Council: Literature
• (Inggris) J. G. Ballard di Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• J. G. Ballard di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• J. G. Ballard's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
• Ballardian (Simon Sellars)
• J.G. Ballard Literary Archive & Bibliographies (Rick McGrath)
• 2008 profile of J. G. Ballard Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine. by Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal magazine
• J. G. Ballard Literary Estate
• J G Ballard at the British Library
• J G Ballard archives and manuscripts catalogue at the British Library

artikel, ulasan dan esai

• Frick, Thomas (Winter 1984). "J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85". The Paris Review. Winter 1984 (94).
• Landscapes From a Dream Diarsipkan 2020-12-29 di Wayback Machine., J G Ballard and modern art
• The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare, City Journal, Winter 2008 Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine.
• Miracles of Life reviewed by Karl Miller in the Times Literary Supplement, 12 March 2008
• J.G. Ballard: The Glow of the Prophet Diane Johnson article on Ballard from The New York Review of Books
• Reviews of Ballard's work and John Foyster's criticism of Ballard's work featured in Edition 46 of Science Fiction magazine edited by Van Ikin.
• A review of Ballard's Running Wild J. G. Ballard's Running Wild – The Literary Life Diarsipkan 2015-09-24 di Wayback Machine.

sumber lain

• J. G. Ballard and his family on the list of the internment camp at Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
• J.G. Ballard and Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

obituari dan kenangan

• Obituary in the Times Online
• Obituary by John Clute in The Independent
• Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
• Quotes from other writers on BBC News
• More writers' reactions in The Guardian
• A short appreciation in The New Yorker
• Tribute by V. Vale from RE/Search
• Letter From London: The J.G. Ballard Memorial Diarsipkan 2021-01-27 di Wayback Machine.
• Self on Ballard by Will Self on BBC Radio 4, 26 September 2009 (Transcript and Postscript) at The Terminal Collection by Rick McGrath