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Barry Unsworth FRSL (10 August 1930 – 4 June 2012) was an English writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.
Barry Unsworth (ur. 10 sierpnia 1930 w Wingate, Anglia, zm. 5 czerwca 2012 w Perugii, Włochy) – angielski prozaik. W 1951 ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie Manchesterskim. Był autorem wielu powieści historycznych. W 1992 został laureatem prestiżowej nagrody literackiej The Booker Prize za Sacred Hunger.
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 of national service, he lived in France for a year where he taught English.
Barry Unsworth rose from modest circumstances in depression-era Durham near Newcastle Upon Tyne, to become one of England’s most important late twentieth century and early twenty-first century novelists. Born in 1930 into a coal mining community, Unsworth graduated from Manchester university in 1951.
5 cze 2012 · Urodzony: 10.08.1930 Zmarły: 05.06.2012. Angielski pisarz. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Manchesterskiego. Po skończonych studiach uczył angielskiego we Francji, Grecji i Turcji. Autor 17 nowel, z których kilka ukazało się w przekładzie na polski (wszystkie ukazały się nakładem wydawnictwa Prószyński i S-ka).
Barry Unsworth. Writer: Losing Nelson. Born in Wingate, County Durham on the 10th August 1930 he was educated at Stockton on Tees Grammar School and Manchester University then spent a number of years in the Eastern Mediteranean region teaching English in Athens and Istanbul.
Barry Unsworth Biography. Barry Unsworth (b. 1930) won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger (1992); his next novel, Morality Play, was a Booker nominee and a bestseller in both the United States and Great Britain.
