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Barry Unsworth


UK flag (1930 - 2012)

Novelist Barry Unsworth was born in 1930. He grew up in a small mining community in County Durham, in the north of England. After studying English at Manchester University and completing two years national service, he lived in France for a year where he taught English. He traveled extensively in Greece and Turkey during the 1960s, teaching at the Universities of Istanbul and Athens. Unsworth died in Italy in 2012, of lung cancer.
 

Genres: Historical
 
Series
Sacred Hunger
   1. Sacred Hunger (1992)
   2. The Quality of Mercy (2011)
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Novels
   The Partnership (1966)
   The Hide (1970)
   Mooncranker's Gift (1973)
   The Big Day (1976)
   Pascali's Island (1980)
   The Idol Hunter (1980)
   The Rage of the Vulture (1982)
   Stone Virgin (1985)
   Sugar and Rum (1988)
   The Greeks Have a Word for It (1993)
   Morality Play (1995)
   After Hannibal (1996)
   Losing Nelson (1999)
   The Songs of the Kings (2002)
   The Ruby in Her Navel (2006)
   Land of Marvels (2008)
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Anthologies edited
   Classic Sea Stories (1994)
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Non fiction show
 
Barry Unsworth recommends
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Natural History (2022)
Andrea Barrett
"There is [in Andrea Barrett's writing] simply a sustained beauty of phrasing, a close care for the thing to be said and the best way to say it, that blend of precision and appropriateness that has always characterized the best prose, an attentiveness to the truth of human feeling that is in itself a supremely civilized value."
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Laish (2009)
Aharon Appelfeld
"The appearance of simplicity is, of course, the result of care and control, and the success with which it is achieved is one of the most notable and impressive features of this strikingly original novel, comparable in its way, though very different in tone, to some of the early work of Ernest Hemingway."
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Tapes of the River Delta (1995)
(Monument, book 1)
Peter Cunningham
"Peter Cunningham is a writer of great gifts."

Anthologies containing stories by Barry Unsworth

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Pascali's Island
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1992) : Sacred Hunger
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1995) : Morality Play
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Ruby in Her Navel
Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2012) : The Quality of Mercy


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