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Name
  
Peter Conradi


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Author

Peter J. Conradi wwwarnolfiniorgukwhatsonpeterjconradionfr

Books
  
Iris Murdoch, A Very English Hero: The, Hitler's piano player, Going Buddhist, At the Bright Hem of God: R

Peter J. Conradi FRSL (born 8 May 1945) is a British author and academic.

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He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, 1967), the University of Sussex (MA, 1969) and University College London (PhD, 1983).

Career

Conradi is known as a biographer, having written Iris Murdoch: A Life, an official biography of his friend Iris Murdoch, and A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson. He is English Professor Emeritus at Kingston University.

Conradi also wrote the book, Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me. He is a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and follows the Shambhala Buddhist lineage.

Works

  • John Fowles (1982) (ISBN 0-416-32250-6)
  • Iris Murdoch. The Saint and the Artist (1986) (ISBN 0-312-43614-9)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky (1987) (ISBN 0-312-02053-8)
  • Angus Wilson (1997) with Isobel Armstrong and Bryan Loughrey (editors) (ISBN 0-7463-0803-5)
  • Cold War, Common Pursuit: British Council Lecturers in Poland 1938-98 (1999) with Stoddard Martin (editors)
  • Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch (1999) editor
  • Iris Murdoch: A Life (2001) and later revisions (ISBN 0-393-04875-6)
  • Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch (2002) (ISBN 0-393-32401-X)
  • Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me (2005) (ISBN 1-904095-63-1)
  • At the Bright Hem of God (2009) (ISBN 978-1-85411-490-7)
  • A writer at war : letters & diaries, 1939-45 (editor) (2010) (ISBN 978-1-906021-22-1)
  • A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson (2012) (ISBN 978-1-408802-43-4)
  • References

    Peter J. Conradi Wikipedia