Julian Barnes is a Man Booker Prize–winning English author.
Born in Leicester but raised in suburban London, Barnes read Modern Languages at Oxford. His first novel, Metroland, took eight years to write and was published in 1980. The same year he put out the first of four crime novels published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, which used his wife's surname.
Barnes' eleventh novel, The Sense of an Ending, was awarded the Booker Prize in 2011. It was his fourth novel to be shortlisted. In 2022, he released Elizabeth Finch, his fourteenth novel. He has also written nine books of non-fiction and three story collections.
Published in 1989 before such things had become commonplace, Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 Chapters is a postmodernist anti-novel that may even be said to be anti-history, despite its title. Each of its ten chapters is actually an...
Julian Barnes's The Sense of An Ending is a novel about a middle-aged man coming to terms with how a cruel letter he wrote as a young man precipitated the suicide of a close friend. The book won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Retired arts...
