P. H. Newby

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Percy Howard Newby (June 25, 1918 - September 6, 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having captured the inaugural award in 1969.

[edit] Novels

  • A Journey to the Interior (1945)
  • The Young May Moon (1950)
  • A Season in England (1951)
  • A Step to Silence (1952)
  • The Retreat (1953)
  • Picnic at Sakkara (1955)
  • The Barbary Light (1962)
  • One of the Founders (1965)
  • Spirit of Jem (1967)
  • Something to Answer for (1968)
  • A Lot to Ask (1973)
  • Kith (1977)
  • Warrior Pharaohs (1980)
  • Feelings Have Changed (1981)
  • Saladin in His Time (1983)
  • Leaning in the Wind (1986)
  • Coming in with the Tide (1991)
  • Something About Women (1995)

[edit] Non fiction

  • Maria Edgeworth (1950)
  • The Novel, 1945-1950 (1951)
  • The Uses of Broadcasting (1978)
  • Egypt Story (1979)
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Man Booker Prize: Man Booker Prize for Fiction Winners
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1960s 69: Newby
1970s 70: Rubens 71: Naipaul 72: Berger 73: Farrell 74: Gordimer, Middleton 75: Jhabvala 76: Storey 77: Scott 78: Murdoch 79: Fitzgerald
1980s 80: Golding 81: Rushdie 82: Keneally 83: Coetzee 84: Brookner 85: Hulme 86: Amis 87: Lively 88: Carey 89: Ishiguro
1990s 90: Byatt 91: Okri 92: Ondaatje, Unsworth 93: Doyle 94: Kelman 95: Barker 96: Swift 97: Roy 98: McEwan 99: Coetzee
2000s 00: Atwood 01: Carey 02: Martel 03: Pierre 04: Hollinghurst 05: Banville 06: Desai
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