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  <name><![CDATA[J.G. Ballard]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China where his father was a businessman. After the attack on Pearl Harbour, Ballard and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They returned to England in 1946. After two years at Cambridge, where he read medicine, Ballard worked as a copywriter and a Covent Garden porter before going to Canada with the RAF.

In 1956 his first short story was published in New Worlds and he took a full-time job on a technical journal, moving on to become assistant editor of a scientific journal, where he stayed until 1961. His first novel, 'The Drowned World', was written in the same year.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs, Surrealism, Sigmund Freud, Jean Genet]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Shanghai International Settlement</hometown>  <born_at>11/15/1930</born_at>  <died_at>04/19/2009</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Crash: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Concrete Island: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Atrocity Exhibition]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Drowned World]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Super-Cannes: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cocaine Nights]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Crystal World]]></title>
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