Barry Unsworth

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Barry Unsworth (born August 8 1930) is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. He has published 14 novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.<p>Unsworth was born in Wingate, a mining village in Durham, England. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1951, and lived in France for a year teaching English. He also traveled extensively in Greece and Turkey during the 1960s, lecturing at the University of Athens and the University of Istanbul. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at the University of Iowa's renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2004 he taught literature and creative writing classes at Kenyon College in Ohio. He currently lives in Umbria, Italy.<p>His first novel, The Partnership, was published in 1966. Pascali's Island (1980), the first of his novels to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is set on an Aegean island during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The novel was...