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Iris Murdoch

Age: 79

important British writer whose 27 novels included The Bell (1958) and The Sea, the Sea (1978), for which she won the Booker Prize. In 1987 she was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire.

Died: Oxford, England, February 8 1999

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