Novelist Julian Barnes was born in Leicester on 19
January 1946 and was educated at the City of London School and w in 1977. He was assistant literary
editor and television critic for the New Statesman magazine (1977-81)
and deputy literary editor for the Sunday Times (1980-82), before
becoming television critic of The Observer, where he worked until 1986.
He was
Barnes' first novel, Metroland (1980), follows
the adventures of a young man escaping English suburbia in
Staring at the Sun
(1986) narrates the life story of Jean Sergeant, from the Second World War
through to the first decades of the new millennium. A History of the World
in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989) explores the relationship between art, religion
and death, through a number of stories linked by images of shipwreck and
survival, while Talking It Over (1991), winner of the French Prix Fémina, is the story of a triangular love affair. The
Porcupine, a political novel set in
Love, etc (2000), continues the stories of the characters he created in Talking
It Over. He also used to write a series of detective thrillers under the
pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, featuring the bisexual
private-eye, Duffy.
Julian Barnes' work has been successful both commercially and critically on
both sides of the English Channel, and Flaubert's Parrot was awarded the
Prix Médicis (
His book Something to Declare: French Essays (2002),
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 (2002). The Pedant in the
Kitchen (2003), was originally a series of
articles for The Guardian. The Lemon Table (2004), is his latest collection of short fiction in which the
characters are linked by their proximity to old age and death.
Julian Barnes lives in
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