The world has lost one of the versatile writers and a Booker Prize winner. The fiction writer Barry Unsworth has passed away. He was 81. Born in 1930, Barry Unsworth shot into fame after he first novel-The Partnership-was out in 1966. He shared the prestigious Booker Prize for his  fiction-Sacred Hunger. This novel was a big hit as it was a historical fiction and showed the life of a few fiction characters in the backdrop of Atlantic slave trade in 18th Century. His other two books were also shortlisted for Booker Prize.

The last novel he wrote was The Quality of Mercy that was published in 2011. His novel Morality Play was adapted and made into a film in 2003 under the title The Reckoning.
(Phani)