| farah ashraf |
An English novelist, born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, and grew up with her three sisters in Narayanganj, in colonial India (now Bangladesh), where her father, a shipping company executive, worked. Nine of her works were turned into works of art, the most famous of which are the series Black Narcissus (2020), Kizzy (1976), and Jackanory (1965). A few of her works were written with her older sister, the novelist John Gooden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir about Gooden's childhood in an area that is now part of Bangladesh. In 1968 she took up rent at Lam House in Rye, East Sussex, where she lived until her husband died in 1973. She moved to Moniave in Dumfriesshire in 1978, aged 70, to be near her daughter Jane. She was awarded an OBE in 1993, and visited India again in 1994, to Kashmir to film a documentary about her life and books for the BBC. Gooden died on November 8, 1998, at the age of 90, after a series of strokes.
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