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David Storey
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2026-07-14
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David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel Saville. He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life in 1960.
Career
- 1933Born
- 1963Won Somerset Maugham Award
- 1973Won Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- 1976Won Booker Prize
- 2017Passed away
- Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Wakefield
- •Citizenship: United Kingdom
- •Known as: screenwriter, novelist, dramaturge, painter
- •Genre: prose, dramaturgy
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Playwright David Storey’s posthumous memoir: ‘The more successful I became, the more ill I felt’
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David Storey, Novelist and Playwright Lauded on Both Sides of Atlantic, Dies at 83 (Published 2017)