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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. Expelled from Charterhouse School, he was commissioned in the infantry in National service, before studying at King's College ...
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- 12 May 2001 (aged 73), London, England
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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Dec 6, 2016 · 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. In later life, he retired to the Charterhouse, and while there was featured as the subject of an episode of The South Bank Show.
April 2003. Who was Simon Raven? by. Brooke Allen. Considering the late English novelist, journalist, television writer & cult figure. N ovelists who achieve a cult status write, by definition, for a. narrow and usually specialist readership, and while their books. are not for everyone, they attract certain passionate partisans.
May 17, 2001 · Simon Raven, whose 36 novels provided a highly personalized, exceedingly hedonistic vision of the English upper classes, died Saturday at a London hospital. He was 73. The cause...
Aug 23, 2020 · I have recently been happily occupied rereading Simon Raven ’s magnificent Alms for Oblivion suite of novels and then his novella, The Islands of Sorrow, a signed first edition and a most ...
May 16, 2001 · Promiscuous chronicler of upper-class life. Michael Barber. Tue 15 May 2001 21.41 EDT. The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after...
