Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth FRSL was an English 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.
10 August 1930
Born on the same birth day (10 August): Alexander Goehr • Bill Doolittle • Dagný Brynjarsdóttir • Daniel Hugh Kelly • Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss • Ian Anderson • Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby • James II of Aragon • Jim Bakkum • Josh Anderson (baseball) • Lee Sung-kyung • Mark Price (musician) • Mocomichi Hayami • Rosie Winterton • Tony Ross • Vicente Guerrero
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