David Storey

Who is this?

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

1. 1933
   Born
2. 1963
   Won Somerset Maugham Award
3. 1973
   Won Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
4. 1976
   Won Booker Prize
5. 2017
   Passed away
6. Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Wakefield
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom
• •Known as: screenwriter, novelist, dramaturge, painter
• •Genre: prose, dramaturgy