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Jun 5, 2012 · Barry Unsworth (Author of Sacred Hunger) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Barry Unsworth's books. Join Goodreads. Barry Unsworth’s Followers (163) Born. in Wingate, The United Kingdom. August 08, 1930. Died. June 05, 2012. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction. edit data.
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Jun 8, 2012 · Barry Unsworth, considered one of the foremost historical novelists in English, who was known for rich, densely textured fiction that conjured lost worlds — those of the Trojan War, medieval...
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He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His first novel, The Partnership, was published in 1966. It was followed by The Greeks Have a Word For It (1967), The Hide (1970), and Mooncranker's Gift (1973), winner of the Heinemann Award. Pascali's Island (1980) is set during the last years of the Ottoman empire.
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The Quality of Mercy. Sacred Hunger is a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 1992. It shared the Booker Prize that year with Michael Ondaatje 's The English Patient . The story is set in the mid 18th century and centres on the Liverpool Merchant, a slave ship employed in the triangular trade, a central trade route in the ...
Jun 8, 2012 · British novelist Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker prize for his story about the 18th-century slave trade, Sacred Hunger, has died in Italy aged 81. The Durham-born author had lived in...
About the Author. Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 and grew up in a mining town in northeast England. Descended from a long line of coal miners, he was the first Unsworth to escape the mines. He attended Manchester University and published his first novel, The Partnership, in 1966.
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