J. G. Ballard

James Graham "J. G." Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories such as The Atrocity Exhibition, which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Burroughs. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism; the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by David Cronenberg. While many of Ballard's stories are thematically and narratively unusual, he is perhaps best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War as it came to be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. Described as "The best British novel about the Second World War" by The Guardian, the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg.

Awards by J. G. Ballard

Check all the awards nominated and won by J. G. Ballard.

2010

Xatafi-Cyberdark for Foreign story	Honored for : The Index

2004

Tähtivaeltaja Award	Honored for : Super-Cannes

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection	The Complete Short Stories: Volume I

1993

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story	The Message from Mars

1992

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story	Dream Cargoes

1991

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection	The Atrocity Exhibition
Locus Award for Best Collection	War Fever

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story	The Enormous Space

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection	Memories of the Space Age

1984

Guardian Fiction Prize

Honored for : Empire of the Sun

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Guardian Fiction Prize	Empire of the Sun
Man Booker Prize	Empire of the Sun

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette	Myths of the Near Future

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	The Unlimited Dream Company

1979

BSFA award for best novel	Honored for : The Unlimited Dream Company

1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story	Souvenir