peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. A few months later he drowned on the coast of Bantry Bay after falling into the sea from rocks while angling. He was 44. "Had he not sadly died so young,” Salman Rushdie said in 2008, "there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary." Farrell is buried in the churchyard of St James the Apostle Church, Durrus, a Church of Ireland parish church. The manuscript library at Trinity College, Dublin holds his papers: Papers of James Gordon Farrell (1935–1979). TCD MSS 9128-60. Legacy Peter Morey wrote that "an interpretation of the novels of J. G. Farrell and Paul Scott as examples of post-colonial fiction [is possible], since both partake of oppositional and interrogative narrative practices which recognize and work to dismantle the staple elements of imperial narrative." Derek Mahon dedicates his poem "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford" to Farrell, possibly in reference to the topic of Troubles. Ronald Binns described Farrell's colonial novels as "probably the most ambitious literary project conceived and executed by any British novelist in the 1970s."Binns, Ronald. "J. G. Farrell", Methuen, London, 1986. In the 1984 novel Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie, Vinnie Miner, the protagonist, reads a Farrell novel on her flight from New York to London. In the 1991 novel The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble, the writer Stephen Cox is modelled on Farrell. Quotes Farrell said to George Brock in an interview for The Observer, "the really interesting thing that's happened during my lifetime has been the decline of the British Empire."The Observer Magazine 24 September 1978 ISSN 0029-7712 List of works Early works A Man from Elsewhere (1963) The Lung (1965) A Girl in the Head (1967) Empire Trilogy Troubles (1970) The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) The Singapore Grip (1978) Published posthumously 1973–74: The Pussycat Who Fell in Love with a Suitcase. Atlantis. 6 (Winter 1973/4), pp. 6–10 1981: The Hill Station; and An Indian Diary, unfinished, edited by John Spurling. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Awards 1971: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (Troubles) 1973: Booker Prize (The Siege of Krishnapur) 2010: Lost Man Booker Prize (Troubles'') awarded for the year 1970 Further reading 1979 Bernard Bergonzi, The Contemporary English Novel 1981 John Spurling, Margaret Drabble, Malcolm Dean. "The Hill Station"—Personal