Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

L’ile de béton (Concrete Island), French edition, Calman-Lévy (1974). Thanks to Herve for the scan. Interview by Philippe R. Hupp. Translation by Dan O’Hara. Ballard’s novels have always been translated into French with alacrity. His 1974 novel, Concrete Island , was already in t...

‘VIOLENCE WITHOUT END’: AN INTERVIEW WITH J.G. BALLARD Conducted by Evelyn Finger. Translation by Dan O’Hara. ABOVE: JGB in recent times. Photographer unknown (image courtesy The Terminal Collection). The following interview appeared in the German newspaper Die Zeit in September 20...

“I really would not want to fuck George W. Bush!â€�: A Conversation with J. G. Ballard, conducted by Werner Fuchs and Sascha Mamczak. ABOVE: JGB in 2006 (photo courtesy The Terminal Collection). Translation by Dan O’Hara. The interview below was published in a vast tome, an annual German rev...

‘An Interview with J. G. Ballard’ (1982) by Werner Fuchs and Joachim Körber. Translation by Dan O’Hara. JGB in 1985: photo by Bleddyn Butcher. The following interview was conducted in Shepperton at some point during the spring of 1982, shortly before the publication of Myths of th...

‘It would be a mistake to write about the future’: J. G. Ballard in Conversation with Jörg Krichbaum and Rein A. Zondergeld Translation by Dan O’Hara. JGB, somewhere in the early-to-mid 70s. This interview, conducted on the 1st of March 1976, was first published in German in the s...