Robert Nye FRSL (15 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an English poet and author.[1] His bestselling novel Falstaff was published in 1976. It was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in The Times) as "one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade", and went on to win both The Hawthornden Prize and Guardian Fiction Prize.
The novel was also included in Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 (1984).[2]
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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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