P. H. Newby

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P. H. Newby
Born June 25, 1918(1918-06-25)
Crowborough, England
Died September 6, 1997 (aged 79)
Garsington, England
Occupation Author, Managing Director of BBC radio

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

P.H. Newby, known as Howard Newby, was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School, Worcester, and St. Paul's College, Cheltenham. In October 1939 he was sent to France, to fight in the war as a private, in a Medical Corps Unit. His unit was one of the last to be evacuated. Aferwards, he was sent to the Middle East and served in the Egyptian desert.

Newby was released from duty in December 1942, and taught English Literature at Fouad 1st University, Cairo.

His first novel was A Journey into the Interior, and when it was published in 1946, he returned to England to write. In the same year he was given an Atlantic Award in literature, and two years thence he received the Somerset Maugham Prize.

He was given a CBE for his work as Managing Director of BBC radio.

  • 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)

  • Maria Edgeworth (1950)
  • The Novel, 1945-1950 (1951)
  • The Uses of Broadcasting (1978)
  • Egypt Story (1979)
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Man Booker Prize Winners for Fiction
1960–1969

P. H. Newby (1969)
1970–1979

Bernice Rubens (1970) • V. S. Naipaul (1971) • John Berger (1972) • James Gordon Farrell (1973) • Nadine Gordimer / Stanley Middleton (1974) • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) • David Storey (1976) • Paul Scott (1977) • Iris Murdoch (1978) • Penelope Fitzgerald (1979)
1980–1989

William Golding (1980) • Salman Rushdie (1981) • Thomas Keneally (1982) • John Maxwell Coetzee (1983) • Anita Brookner (1984) • Keri Hulme (1985) • Kingsley Amis (1986) • Penelope Lively (1987) • Peter Carey (1988) • Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
1990–1999

A. S. Byatt (1990) • Ben Okri (1991) • Michael Ondaatje / Barry Unsworth (1992) • Roddy Doyle (1993) • James Kelman (1994) • Pat Barker (1995) • Graham Swift (1996) • Arundhati Roy (1997) • Ian McEwan (1998) • John Maxwell Coetzee (1999)
2000–2010

Margaret Atwood (2000) • Peter Carey (2001) • Yann Martel (2002) • DBC Pierre (2003) • Alan Hollinghurst (2004) • John Banville (2005) • Kiran Desai (2006) • Anne Enright (2007)
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