Simon Raven
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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 around 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:
- Fielding Gray
- Sound the Retreat
- Sabre Squadron
- The Rich Pay Late
- Friends in Low Places
- The Judas Boy
- Places where They sing
- Come like Shadows
- Bring forth the Body
- The Survivors
Drama
The Pallisers, a 22-episode adaptation for the BBC of all six Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, first broadcast in 1974.
External link
- Obituary (http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,491484,00.html)