biography
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| lived:
| (1920–78)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied in London, then served with the Indian army in India and Malaya (1943–6), and worked as a literary agent until 1960. His reputation is based on four novels collectively known as The Raj Quartet (1966–74), comprising The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1972), and A Division of the Spoils (1974), in which he gave an exhaustive account of the British withdrawal from India. This quartet was adapted for the Granada television series The Jewel in the Crown (1982). He received the Booker Prize for his last novel, Staying On (1977). |
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