Peter Ackroyd CBE (born 5 October 1949) is an English novelist, critic, poet, television writer, historian and scholar.
Ackroyd was born in East Acton, London.[1] He graduated in English from Clare College, Cambridge.[1] He later studied at Yale University.[1] He is openly gay.[1]
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| 1965–1970 |
- Crumb Borne by Clive Barry (1965)
- The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind (1966)
- Winter Journey by Eva Figes (1967)
- A Song and a Dance by P. J. Kavanagh (1968)
- Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch (1969)
- When Did You Last See your Father? by Margaret Blount (1970)
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| 1971–1980 |
- The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (1971)
- G by John Berger (1972)
- In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove (1973)
- The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (1974)
- Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton (1975)
- Falstaff by Robert Nye (1976)
- The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock (1977)
- The Murderer by Roy Heath (1978)
- Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan and The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1979)
- A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
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| 1981–1990 |
- Kepler by John Banville (1981)
- Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes (1982)
- Waterland by Graham Swift (1983)
- Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984)
- Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (1985)
- Continent by Jim Crace (1986)
- The Levels by Peter Benson (1987)
- Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (1988)
- Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City by Carol Lake (1989)
- Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville (1990)
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| 1991–1998 |
- The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd (1991)
- Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (1992)
- The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1993)
- Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam (1994)
- Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan (1995)
- Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996)
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997)
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay (1998)
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