Barry Unsworth

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

Life

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

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

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

Work

Unsworth 1966 published his first novel, The Partnership ( The Partnership ). Pascali 's Iceland (1980 ), his first novel, which was nominated for the Booker Prize, plays on an Aegean island in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. Later the book was (The Lost Island) by James Dearden filmed as Pascali 's Iceland with the main actors Charles Dance, Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley. In 1992, with Unsworth Sacred Hunger ( The Slave Ship ), which deals with the Atlantic slave trade, the Booker Prize with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient ( The English Patient ). The historical criminal case Morality Play (1995, The Masks of Truth), again nominated for the Booker Prize, was made ​​into a film in 2003 starring Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe as The Reckoning.

Awards

Writings

  • The Partnership, 1966
  • The Greeks Have a Word For It, 1967
  • The Hide 1970
  • Mooncranker 's Gift, 1973
  • The Big Day, 1976
  • Pascali 's Iceland, 1980. Pascalis Island German, translated by Peter Hahlbrock, limes, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8090-2262-4
  • The Rage of the Vulture, 1982
  • Stone Virgin, 1985. German Madonna, translated by Ute Spengler, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-550-06488-8
  • Sugar and Rum, 1988
  • Sacred Hunger, 1992. German The slave ship, translated by Monika Curths, joke, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-502-10777-7
  • Morality Play, 1995. German The Masks of Truth, translated by Wolfgang Neuhaus and Günter Panske, Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-7857-0872-6
  • After Hannibal, 1996. A German House in Umbria, translated by Wolfgang Neuhaus, Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-7857-1501-3
  • Losing Nelson, 1999. Horatio German shadow, 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
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