Alternative Stories: The Nature of Truth in Historical Fiction

16th Annual Kimon Friar Lecture by Barry Unsworth

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 – 7 p.m.

John S. Bailey Library - Upper Level

Introductory remarks by:

Dr. Anastasia Logotheti
Professor of English

DEREE - The American College of Greece

A reception to follow

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Barry Unsworth: Barry Unsworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds an honorary doctorate from Manchester University. He is the author of 17 novels, among them “Mooncranker’s Gift”, which won the Heinemann Award for 1973, and “Sacred Hunger”, which was joint winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. “Pascali’s Island” (1980) and “Morality Play” (1995) were shortlisted for the same prize. His latest novel, “The Quality of Mercy”, is due for publication in September 2011 in the UK and in January 2012 in the US. “Pascali’s Island” was filmed in 1988 and “Morality Play” in 2003 (as “The Reckoning”).

His work has been translated into 17 languages. In the course of the 1960’s he taught English at the Universities of Athens and Istanbul. He was Arts Council Literary Fellow at the Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside (1978-79), and Northern Arts Literary Fellow at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle (1982-84). He was Writer in Residence at the University of Liverpool (1984-85) and at the University of Lund in Sweden (1988). He spent the 1988-89 academic year teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In 2004 he was the Thomas Professor at Kenyon College, Ohio.

Barry Unsworth lives in Umbria, Italy.

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