CHRONOLOGY 1
1946 à He was born in
Leicester on 19 January.
1977 à He became a
contributing editor for the New Review.
1977 - 1981 à He was
assistant literary editor and television critic for the New Statesman
magazine.
1980 à Barnes' first
novel, Metroland, follows the adventures of a
young man escaping English suburbia in Paris in 1968.
1980 - 1982 à He was deputy
literary editor for the Sunday Times.
1979 – 1986 à He became
television critic of The Observer.
1982 à Before She
Met Me, a story of jealousy
and obsession.
1984 à The acclaimed Flaubert's
Parrot, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Narrated by a retired doctor,
Geoffrey Braithwaite, the novel combines literary criticism, biographical
digression and a tragic personal narrative as Braithwaite travels through Rouen
and Croisset on the trail of the celebrated author of
Madame Bovary.
1986 à Staring at
the Sun narrates the life story of Jean Sergeant, from the Second World War
through to the first decades of the new millennium. He was also awarded the E.
M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1989 à A History
of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters explores the relationship between art,
religion and death, through a number of stories linked by images of shipwreck
and survival.
1990 – 1995 à He was London
correspondent for the New Yorker magazine.
1991 à Talking It Over, winner of the French Prix Fémina,
is the story of a triangular love affair.
1992 à The
Porcupine, a political novel set in Eastern Europe.
1993 à He was awarded
the German Shakespeare Prize from the Alfred Toepfer
Foundation in Hamburg.
1995 à A collection of these
articles were published as Letters from London 1990-95. He was also made
Officier de l'Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres
(France).
1996 à Cross
Channel, a collection of short stories about English men and women living
in France.
1998 à England,
England, a dark satire of contemporary English 'theme-park' culture, which
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
2000 à Love, etc,
continues the stories of the characters he created in Talking It Over.
2002 à Something
to Declare: French Essays,
is a series of essays about French life and culture. He has also edited and
translated the first English translation of the French 19th-century novelist
Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain.
2003 à The Pedant in the Kitchen, was originally a
series of articles for The Guardian.
2004 à The Lemon Table, is his latest collection
of short fiction in which the characters are linked by their proximity to old
age and death.
2005 à Arthur and George, based on the
true story of a solicitor in the early 20th century, accused of maiming
cattle, and saved by the intervention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2008 à His latest
novel Nothing To Be
Frightened Of.
Julian Barnes Biography
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