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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| 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 |
