James Gordon Farrell , known as J. G. Farrell, was a Liverpool-born novelist of Irish descent. Farrell gained prominence for his historical fiction, most notably his Empire Trilogy , dealing with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule. However, his career was cut tragically short when he drowned in Ireland at the age of 44. The Siege of Krishnapur won the 1973 Booker Prize. On 19 May 2010, it was announced that Troubles had retrospectively won the Lost Man Booker Prize, which was created to recognise works published in 1970 . Farrell, born in Liverpool into a family of... Anglo-Irish background, was the second of three brothers. His father, William Farrell, had worked as an accountant in Bengal and in 1929, he married Prudence Josephine Russell, who was a former receptionist and secretary to a doctor. From the age of 12 he attended Rossall public school in Lancashire.
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