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Barry Unsworth

UK  (1930 - )
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About Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 in a mining village in Durham, and he attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and Manchester University. He has spent a number of years in the Eastern Mediterranean area and has taught English in Athens and Istanbul. He now lives in Italy.
 
Series
Sacred HungerThe Quality of Mercy
 
Anthologies edited
Classic Sea Stories
 
Non fiction
Crete
 
Anthologies containing stories by Barry Unsworth
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares
 
Short stories
Death of a Primitive Humanist (1976)


Awards
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Pascali's Island
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1992) : Sacred Hunger
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1995) : Morality Play
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Ruby in Her Navel


Barry Unsworth recommends
Tapes of the River Delta
Tapes of the River Delta (1995)
(Monument, book 1)
Peter Cunningham
"Peter Cunningham is a writer of great gifts."



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