List Of Writers

CONRADI, PETER

Peter Conradi studied at the University of East Anglia, Sussex University and UCL, and currently lives near Presteigne, Powys. He lectured in English at a number of universities both in the UK and abroad. He was appointed as a Professor in 1992 and since retiring in 1997 has enjoyed a Visiting Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford and a Honorary Research Fellowship at UCL. He was appointed the Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University in 1997. He was also invited back to Kingston to lecture postgraduates in 2004. Peter’s main teaching interests are nineteenth and twentieth century literature, especially fiction, and Shakespeare. 

Peter has reviewed for the Guardian, Evening Standard, New Statesman, TLS, Independent and Independent–on–Sunday, and has also done radio-journalism (e.g. on both Radio 3 and 4). He is the non-fiction judge for the 2006 Glen-Dimplex Literary Awards.

Selected Publications:
John Fowles (Methuen, 1983)
The Saint and the Artist: a Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch (Macmillan, 1987)
Dostoevsky (Macmillan, 1988)
Angus Wilson In Writers and their Works (Northcote House, 1997)
Iris Murdoch: a Life (Harper-Collins, 2001)
Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me (Short Books, 2004)
Murdoch in Wales (Transactions of Radnorshire Society, 2006)  

Contributed to:
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch (editor) (Chatto & Windus, 1997)
Cold War, Common Pursuit (editor with Stoddard Martin) (Starhaven, 1998)