Who wrote 'The Empire of The Sun'?
Empire of the Sun Empire of the Sun Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology "Myths of the Near Future"), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan. Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the
Empire of the Sun (soundtrack) Plane" and "Home and Hearth") and "No Road Home/Seeing the Bomb" (included as the separate cues "Trip Through the Crowd" and "Seeing the Bomb"). Empire of the Sun (soundtrack) Empire of the Sun is the soundtrack, on Warner Bros. Records, of the 1987 film "Empire of the Sun", directed by Steven Spielberg. The original score was composed by John Williams and recorded in September-October 1987. The album is a 54-minute selection of music from "Empire of the Sun". The order of the track listing does not follow the chronology of the film. The album won the BAFTA Award for Best