Biography Wikipedia: Julian Barnes
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Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three
times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Following an education at
the City of London
School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a
literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes is a philosopher specializing in
ancient philosophy.
He lives in
Barnes is a devoted
Francophile and his writing reflects his long standing immersion in French
literary culture. His first novel, Metroland,
is a short, semi-autobiographical story of Christopher, a young man from the
Barnes reverted after that
to smaller scale novels. In 1991, he published Talking it Over
a contemporary love triangle, told in a he said/she said perspective with
different characters reflecting over common events.
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