Barry Unsworth

1930–2012

English novelist whose Sacred Hunger, sharing the 1992 Booker Prize, confronted the transatlantic slave trade through a mutiny aboard a Liverpool slave ship, part of a body of historical fiction unafraid of hard moral questions.

Timeline of Barry Unsworth’s life

Works

• Sacred Hunger (1992)
• Morality Play (1995)
• The Ruby in Her Navel (2006)

Prizes

• The Ruby in Her Navel — The Booker Prize 2006: Longlist
• Morality Play — The Booker Prize 1995: Shortlist
• Sacred Hunger — The Booker Prize 1992: Winner, Shortlist