Crash

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel Crash was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography Miracles of Life was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, Extreme Metaphors, was published in 2012. J.G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

‘An extraordinary writer … Calm and curious, pointing out every new convergence, Ballard reminds us that dreams are often perverse’ Zadie Smith‘Ballard is beleaguered by his obsessions … remorselessly visual’ Martin Amis‘One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination’ Guardian'A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess'Ballard has issued a series of bulletins on the modern world of almost unerring prescience. Other writers describe; Ballard anticipates' Will Self