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Profile of Simon Raven
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28th December 1927 |
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London, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Simon Arthur Noël Raven, (December 28, 1927 – May 12, 2001), was a novelist, journalist and dramatist. He was born in Virginia Water, Surrey, England and died in London.
Novels
His major work was a series of ten novels under the umbrella title Alms for Oblivion. The novels cover the period 1945 to 1973 and centre on a group of upper and upper middle class characters. They can be considered a novel sequence, if a somewhat loosely structured one.
The early novels are robust satires of the English upper set of the mid 1950s, but the later tend to a more detached and philosophical tone.
The titles in Alms for Oblivion are:
- The Rich Pay Late (1964)
- Friends in Low Places (1965)
- The Sabre Squadron (1966)
- Fielding Gray (1967, but the first by internal chronology)
- The Judas Boy (1968)
- Places Where They Sing (1970)
- Sound the Retreat (1971)
- Come Like Shadows (1972)
- Bring Forth the Body (1974)
- The Survivors (1976)
He followed that with the seven-volume series The First-Born of Egypt. The first book was Morning Star (1984) and the last was The Troubadour (1992).
Drama
The Pallisers, a 22-episode adaptation for the BBC of all six Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, first broadcast in 1974.
Reference
- Barber, Michael. The Captain: The Life and Times of Simon Raven (1997)
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