Barry Unsworth

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Barry Unsworth (born August 10, 1930 in Wingate , County Durham , England , † June 5, 2012 in Perugia , Umbria , Italy ) was a British writer who was best known for his historical novels.

Life

Barry Unsworth graduated from the University of Manchester in 1951 and then taught English in France for a year .

He made extensive tours of Greece and Turkey in the 1960s and lectured at Athens University and Istanbul University . In 1999 he was visiting professor at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa . There was Paul Harding one of his students. In 2004 he taught literature and creative writing at Kenyon College in Ohio .

Barry Unsworth lived in Umbria, Italy and was a member of the Royal Society of Literature .

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In 1966 Unsworth published his first novel, The Partnership . Pascali's Iceland (1980), his first novel, which for the Booker Prize nominee , was playing on a Aegean island in the last years of the Ottoman Empire . The book was later filmed as Pascali's Island (The Forgotten Island) by James Dearden , starring Charles Dance , Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley . 1992 won Unsworth with Sacred Hunger (The Slave Ship), which deals with the Atlantic slave trade, the Booker Prize together with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient ( The English Patient ). The historical crime case Morality Play (1995, The Masks of Truth), again nominated for the Booker Prize, was filmed in 2003 with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe under the title The Reckoning .

Awards

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  • The Partnership , 1966
  • The Greeks Have a Word For It , 1967
  • The Hide , 1970
  • Mooncranker's Gift , 1973
  • The Big Day , 1976
  • Pascali's Island , 1980. German Pascalis Insel , translated by Peter Hahlbrock, Limes, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8090-2262-4
  • The Rage of the Vulture , 1982
  • Stone Virgin , 1985. German The Madonna , translated by Ute Spengler, Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-550-06488-8
  • Sugar and Rum , 1988
  • Sacred Hunger , 1992. German Das Sklavenschiff , translated by Monika Curths, Scherz, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-502-10777-7
  • Morality Play , 1995. German The masks of truth , translated by Wolfgang Neuhaus and Günter Panske , Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-7857-0872-6
  • After Hannibal , 1996. German A house in Umbria , translated by Wolfgang Neuhaus, Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-7857-1501-3
  • Losing Nelson , 1999. German Horatios Schatten , translated by Kathrin Razum , Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-54510-2
  • The Songs of the Kings , 2002
  • Crete . German Where Zeus saw the light of day: a journey through Crete , translated by Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf and Bernhard Jendricke, Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89405-482-4
  • The Ruby in her Navel , 2006
  • Land of Marvels , 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times : Barry Unsworth, Writer of Historical Fiction, Dies at 81 , June 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Unsworth, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wingate
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2012
Place of death Perugia