J.G. Farrell
About the author

J.G. Farrell

J G Farrell was born in Liverpool in January 1935. In 1956 he went to study at Brasenose College, Oxford; it was while there he contracted polio. He drew heavily on his experience for his second novel, The Lung (1965). His novel, Troubles (1970), the first in the Empire trilogy, won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1971. A film version of Troubles was made for British television in 1988. The second in the Empire trilogy, The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) won the Booker Prize. The third volume and his last completed novel, The Singapore Grip (1979), was published shortly before his death. J G Farrell died in 1979 aged 44.

Books by J.G. Farrell