POETRY & LITERATURE
Harry Ransom Lecture: Barry Unsworth
January 26, 2009
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In the first of the Harry Ransom Lectures, writer Barry Unsworth discusses his new book, Land of Marvels at the Ransom Center. A book signing follows. Barry Unsworth is a celebrated novelist who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, a novel about the eighteenth-century slave trade that is widely considered his masterpiece. Unsworth was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and Pascali’s Island, which was adapted into the acclaimed film starring Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren. He was nominated for the Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel. His other works include The Songs of the Kings, After Hannibal, and Losing Nelson. He lives in Italy. Barry Unsworth’s papers are housed at the Ransom Center.
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