Barry Unsworth evokes a distant past filled with deception and mystery, whose racial, tribal, and religious tensions are still with us today
Barry Unsworth
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Barry Unsworth was born in London. He published 17 novels, and is best known for his historical fiction
He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger. In the last years of his life he lived in Perugia, a city in the Umbria region of Italy, with his second wife. His novel After Hannibal is a fictionalised description of his efforts at settlement in the Italian countryside.
Sacred Hunger
Winner of The Booker Prize 1992
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- Hamish Hamilton
Barry Unsworth’s gripping historical novel about the Atlantic slave trade shared the Booker Prize 1992 with Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
Other nominated books
Barry Unsworth’s complex study of betrayal, paranoia, deception and fear, delivered by Pascali himself – an altogether untrustworthy narrator
Barry Unsworth’s detective story set in the 14th century, a time of calamity such as few others have been, marked by war, plague and fear of hellfire
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