Author. Best known for abundantly compact fictional works from historical periods. Born the son of a coal miner, in the Northeastern-England town of Wingate. He received his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Manchester and following service in the British Army, with whom he was a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals, he embarked upon a career as a lecturer which took him throughout Europe. When his attempts to become a writer of short stories failed, he turned to novels and yielded his first effort "The Partnership" (1966), a tale tainted with controversy about two male business partners, one with an erotic attraction towards the other. He enjoyed commercial success with "Pascali's Island" (1980), a story about the Ottoman Empire which earned him a nomination for the Man Booker Prize Best Novel. A 1988 motion picture adaptation was made starring Ben Kingsley. Unsworth received The Man Booker Prize for "Sacred Hunger" (1992) and had a bestseller with "Morality Play" (1995), the later was made into a feature film adaptation in 2003 titled "The Reckoning". He earned an additional Mann Booker nomination with "The Ruby in Her Navel" (2006).
Author. Best known for abundantly compact fictional works from historical periods. Born the son of a coal miner, in the Northeastern-England town of Wingate. He received his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Manchester and following service in the British Army, with whom he was a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals, he embarked upon a career as a lecturer which took him throughout Europe. When his attempts to become a writer of short stories failed, he turned to novels and yielded his first effort "The Partnership" (1966), a tale tainted with controversy about two male business partners, one with an erotic attraction towards the other. He enjoyed commercial success with "Pascali's Island" (1980), a story about the Ottoman Empire which earned him a nomination for the Man Booker Prize Best Novel. A 1988 motion picture adaptation was made starring Ben Kingsley. Unsworth received The Man Booker Prize for "Sacred Hunger" (1992) and had a bestseller with "Morality Play" (1995), the later was made into a feature film adaptation in 2003 titled "The Reckoning". He earned an additional Mann Booker nomination with "The Ruby in Her Navel" (2006).
Bio by: C.S.
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