# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-h-newby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:23.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-h-newby"
name: "P. H. Newby"
slug: "p-h-newby"
description: "Percy Howard Newby CBE 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."
tagline: "English novelist and broadcasting administrator (1918–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Percy_Howard_Newby.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-06-25"
deathDate: "1997-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.015732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump