Margaret Rumer Godden (1907-1998)

woman and author

Died aged 90

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951. A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.
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Margaret Rumer Godden OBE 1907-1998 Prolific author of fiction and non-fiction. Nine of her works were made into films, including Black Narcissus (1947) and The River (Jean Renoir, 1951). She won a Whitbread Award in 1972 for The Diddakoi.

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