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Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter. He is known for his louche lifestyle as much as for his literary output.
May 9, 2024 · Simon Raven (born December 28, 1927, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died May 12, 2001, London) was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, known particularly for his satiric portrayal of the hedonism of the mid-20th-century upper classes of English society.
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May 12, 2001 · Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence.
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Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models.
Peter Hitchens praises the Alms for Oblivion series by Simon Raven, a pagan, cruel and hilarious depiction of post-war England. He argues that Raven's books are a neglected treasure of literature, full of beauty, wit and moral complexity.
Simon Raven has 67 books on Goodreads with 6728 ratings. Simon Raven’s most popular book is Alms for Oblivion, Vol. I.
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Raven, Simon (1927–2001) in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English Length: 228 words