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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.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Land of Marvels
Land of Marvels

Anthologies edited
Classic Sea Stories
 
Non fiction
Crete
 
Anthologies containing stories by Barry Unsworth
 
Short stories
Death of a Primitive Humanist (1976)


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



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