Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth FRSL (10 August 1930 – 5 June 2012) was a British 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.

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