Barry Unsworth, RIP
Booker Prize-winning historical novelist Barry Unsworth, 81, died Tuesday in Perugia, Italy, from lung cancer. Unsworth won the prize in 1992 for his novel SACRED HUNGER and also garnered acclaim for books including MORALITY PLAY (1995) THE SONGS OF THE KINGS (2003) and last year, THE QUALITY OF MERCY, a a follow-up to the novel that garnered him the Booker (a prize shared with Michael Ondaatje.)
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