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Barry Unsworth

Born: 10-Aug-1930
Birthplace: Wingate, Durham, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Sacred Hunger

    University: University of Manchester (1951)
    Professor: Visiting Professor, Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa (1999)
    Teacher: Creative Writing, Kenyon College, Ohio (2004)

    Booker Prize 1992 for Sacred Hunger

Author of books:
The Partnership (1966, novel)
The Greeks Have a Word For It (1967, novel)
The Hide (1970, novel)
Mooncranker's Gift (1973, novel)
The Big Day (1976, novel)
Pascali's Island (1980, novel, aka The Idol Hunter)
The Rage of the Vulture (1982, novel)
Stone Virgin (1985, novel)
Sugar and Rum (1988, novel)
Sacred Hunger (1992, novel)
Morality Play (1995, novel)
After Hannibal (1996, novel)
Losing Nelson (1999, novel)
The Songs of the Kings (2002, novel)



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