WARD, Philip

WARD, Philip. British, b. 1938. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Travel/Exploration, Bibliography, Humor/Satire, Reference, Translations. Career: Coordinator, Library Services, and director, Libyan Research Library, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya Inc., Tripoli, 1963-71; director, Unesco and Government of Indonesia Library Project, 1973-74; professional writer, 1975-. Publications: Collected Poems, 1960; The Quell- Finger Dialogues, 1965; Seldom Rains, 1967; A Survey of Libyan Bibliographical Resources, 2nd ed., 1967; Ambigamus, 1967; Touring Libya: The Western Provinces, 1967; Apuleius on Trial at Sabratha, 1967; Poems for Participants, 1968; At the Best of Times, 1968; A Musical Breakfast, 1968; Touring Libya: The Southern Provinces, 1968; The Poet and the Microscope, 1968; The Okefani Song of Nij Zitru, 1969; Touring Libya, 1969; A Lizard and Other Distractions, 1969; Tripoli, 1969; Maps on the Ceiling, 1970; Motoring to Nalut, 1970; Spanish Literary Appreciation, 1970; Garrity: Nine Plays, 1970; Sabratha, 1970; Touring Lebanon, 1971; The Way to Wadi al-Khail, 1971; Touring Cyprus, 1971; Touring Iran, 1971; Come with Me to Ireland, 1972; Pincers, 1973; The Aeolian Islands, 1974; A House on Fire, 1974; Indonesia: A Traveler's Guide, 2 vols, 1974-75; Bangkok, 1975; Indonesia: The Development of a National Library Service, 1975; A Maltese Boyhood, 1975; Indonesian Traditional Poetry, 1975; Television Plays, 1976; Impostors and Their Imitators, 1978; The Keymakers and Other Poems, 1978; The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature, 1978; A Dictionary of Common Fallacies, 1978, 2nd ed., 2 vols., 1980; Cambridge Street Literature, 1978; (ed.) The Gold-Mines of Midian, by R.F. Burton, 1979; (with A.J. Ward) The Small Publisher, 1979; Lost Songs, 1981; A Lifetime's Reading, 1982; (trans.) Greguerias, by R. Gomez de la Serna, 1982; Albania, 1983; (trans.) The Pure-Bred Arabian Horse, by C. Guarmani, 1984; Forgotten Games, 1984; Japanese Capitals, 1985; Travels in Oman, 1987; Finnish Cities, 1987; Polish Cities, 1988; Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi, 1989; Bulgaria, 1989; Wight Magic, 1990; South India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa, 1991; Western India, 1991; Bulgarian Voices, 1992; Bahrain, 1992; Sofia, 1993; Gujarat, Daman, Diu, 1994; Contemporary Designer Bookbinders, 1995; English Is a Foreign Language, 1996; The Comfort of Women (novel), 2002; His Enamel Mug (poetry), 2003. Address: 17 Stansgate Ave, Cambridge CB2 2QZ, England.