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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 .
David Storey was an English novelist and playwright whose brief professional rugby career and lower-class background provided material for the simple, powerful prose that won him early recognition as an accomplished storyteller and dramatist.
Mar 27, 2017 · LONDON — David Storey, a British writer who drew on his experiences as a miner’s son, a farmworker, an art student, a professional rugby player and a teacher to create novels and plays that won...
Remembering David Storey, giant of postwar English culture. The writer's newly published posthumous memoir is perhaps his most remarkable and gripping work. From magazine issue: 12 June...
Mar 27, 2017 · David Storey, who has died at the age of 83, was the last of the Angry Young Men who, in fiction and drama, made a hero of the working-class Northerner.
Mar 27, 2017 · This Sporting Life author David Storey has died at the age of 83. His much-lauded 1960 debut novel was based on his experiences as a professional rugby league player and was made into a film...
Jun 23, 2021 · A Stinging Delight. Author: David Storey. ISBN-13: 978-0571360314. Publisher: Faber. Guideline Price: £20. “Death”, wrote Saul Bellow, “is the dark backing a mirror needs before we can see...
Set in and around the Second World War, David Storey’s tale about a boy from a mining town who grows away from his roots won the Booker Prize in 1976.
David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. He was known for writing This Sporting Life and for screenwriting movie version.
Mar 27, 2017 · David Storey, the novelist and playwright who has died aged 83, came to prominence during the Northern working class drama explosion of the early 1960s; although he never had the...
