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Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. [1] In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not ...
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Apr 22, 2024 · Paul Scott was a British novelist known for his chronicling of the decline of the British occupation of India, most fully realized in his series of novels known as The Raj Quartet (filmed for television as The Jewel in the Crown in 1984). Scott left school at 16 to train as an accountant.
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Oct 10, 2013 · English author Paul Scott is justifiably most renowned for The Raj Quartet, four works that examine the British Raj in India through the spectrum of English and Indian characters.
Mar 3, 1978 · Paul Scott, a noveist who chroniced the end of British power in India, died Wednesday of cancer in Middlesex Hospital, London, at the age of 57. Though he set some or nis novels in England and...
Paul Scott was born in London in 1920 and joined the Indian Army in 1943. He wrote several uneven novels about British colonialism before embarking on the Quartet: “The Jewel in the Crown” was...
The Raj Quartet is a four-volume novel sequence, written by Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The series was written during the period 1965–75. The Times called it "one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction." [1] Plot. The story of The Raj Quartet begins in 1942.
Authors. Paul Scott was born in London. He is the author of 13 distinguished novels, including his famous The Raj Quartet. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. His novel Staying On, a sequel to The Raj Quartet, won the Booker Prize in 1977. Staying On. Winner The Booker Prize 1977. Staying On. By. Paul Scott.
