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Barry Unsworth (born
August 8 1930) is a
British novelist who is known for
novels with historical themes. He has published 14 novels, and has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel
Sacred Hunger.
Unsworth was born in Wingate, a mining village in
Durham,
England. He graduated from the
University of Manchester in 1951, and lived in
France for a year teaching
English. He also traveled extensively in
Greece and
Turkey during the 1960s, lecturing at the
University of Athens and the
University of Istanbul. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at the University of Iowa's renowned
Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2004 he taught
literature and
creative writing classes at
Kenyon College in
Ohio. He currently lives in
Umbria,
Italy.
His first novel,
The Partnership, was published in 1966.
Pascali's Island (1980), the first of his novels to be shortlisted for the
Booker Prize, is set on an unnamed Aegean island during the last years of the
Ottoman Empire. The novel was later adapted as a
film by
James Dearden, starring
Charles Dance,
Helen Mirren, and
Ben Kingsley as the title character.
Morality Play, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995, is a murder mystery set in 14th-century England, and was adapted as a film, called
The Reckoning, starring
Paul Bettany and
Willem Dafoe.
Sacred Hunger (1992) centers on the Atlantic slave trade that moves from Liverpool to West Africa, Florida and the West Indies. It was joint winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1992, along with
Michael Ondaatje's
The English Patient.
Other novels include
Mooncranker's Gift (1973) (winner of the
Heinemann Award),
Stone Virgin (1985), and
Losing Nelson (1999).
Novels
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