- Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth (born
8 August 1930 ) is a British novelist who is known fornovels with historical themes. He has published 15 novels, and has been shortlisted for theBooker 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 theUniversity of Manchester in 1951, and lived inFrance for a year teaching English. He also traveled extensively inGreece andTurkey during the 1960s, lecturing at theUniversity of Athens and theUniversity of Istanbul . In 1999 he was a visiting professor at the University of Iowa's renownedIowa Writers' Workshop . In 2004 he taughtliterature andcreative writing classes atKenyon College inOhio . He currently lives inUmbria ,Italy .His first novel, "
The Partnership ", was published in 1966. "Pascali's Island" (1980), the first of his novels to be shortlisted for theBooker Prize , is set on an unnamed Aegean island during the last years of theOttoman Empire . The novel was later adapted as a film byJames Dearden , starringCharles Dance ,Helen Mirren , andBen 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 ", starringPaul Bettany andWillem 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 withMichael Ondaatje 's "The English Patient ".Other novels include "
Mooncranker's Gift " (1973) (winner of theHeinemann Award ), "Stone Virgin " (1985), and "Losing Nelson " (1999).Novels
* "
The Partnership " (1966)
* "The Greeks Have a Word For It " (1967)
* "The Hide " (1970)
* "Mooncranker's Gift " (1973)
* "The Big Day" (1976)
* "Pascali's Island" (1980) (originally published as "The Idol Hunter")
* "The Rage of the Vulture " (1982)
* "Stone Virgin " (1985)
* "Sugar and Rum " (1988)
* "Sacred Hunger " (1992)
* "Morality Play " (1995)
* "After Hannibal " (1996)
* "Losing Nelson " (1999)
* "The Songs of the Kings " (2002)
* "The Ruby in her Navel " (2006)
* "Land of Marvels " (forthcoming January 2009)External links
* [http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/2008/06/intensity_of_ilusiona_conversa.cfm 2008 interview with LITTORAL: the blog of the Key West Literary Seminar]
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NAME= Unsworth, Barry
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Englishnovelist
DATE OF BIRTH=August 10 ,1930
PLACE OF BIRTH= Wingate, Durham,England
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