Julian Barnes

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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer.

Barnes received the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books, Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005).

Under the alias Dan Kavanagh, he has also written crime fiction.

Barnes has also published collections of essays and short stories in addition to novels. He became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in 2004.

The Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize are among his citations.

Early life

Barnes was born in Leicester, but his family later moved to London's outer suburbs six weeks later. Both of his parents were French teachers. He has said that his support for Leicester City Football Club was, whether he was four or five, was "a sentimental way of keeping on" to his hometown city. Barnes' mother told him at the age of ten that he had "too much imagination." The family moved to Northwood, Middlesex, where they read 'Metroland' in his first book. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964. He then enrolled in Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement for three years after graduation. He served as a writer and literary editor for the New Statesman and the New Review before being a reviewer and literary editor. Barnes suffered from debilitating shyness during his time as a New Statesman, saying: "I would be lysed into silence if weekly meetings, and I was regarded as the mute member of staff." He worked as a television critic from 1979 to 1986, first for the New Statesman and then for The Observer.

Personal life

Jonathan Barnes, Barnes' brother, is a scholar who specializes in ancient philosophy. Julian Barnes is a patron of Human Rights Organisation Freedom from Torture, for which he has supported numerous fundraising activities, as well as Dignity in Dying, a advocacy group for assisted suicide. Since 1983, he has lived in Tufnell Park, north London.

Barnes is an agnostic.

In 1979, Barnes married Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent. She died of a brain tumor on October 20th, 2008. In an essay in his book, Levels of Life, Barnes talked about his despair over his wife's death.

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Career

Christopher, a young man from London suburbs who migrates to Paris as a student, is back in London in his first book, Metroland. The book explores topics of idealism and sexual fidelity, as well as a three-part structure that is a common recurrence in Barnes' work. Barnes' mother remarked about the book's "bombardment" of filth after reading it. His second book, Before She Met Me, is a darker story of revenge by a cynical scholar who is obsessed by his second wife's past. Flaubert's Parrot, Barnes' breakthrough novel, departed from the conventional linear framework of his previous books and included a fragmentary biographical style tale about an elderly doctor, Geoffrey Braithwaite, who focuses mainly on Gustave Flaubert's life. "He's the writer whose words I most carefully weigh, who I think has spoken the most truth about writing," Barnes said in reference to Flaubert. Parrot debuted to acclaim in France, and it helped establish Barnes as one of the nation's most influential writers.

Barnes, born Dan Kavanagh, was one of Britain's first gay male detectives, and in 1980, Barnes, under the name Dan Kavanagh (Barnes had recently married literary agent Pat Kavanagh). Barnes was quoted as favoring the use of a pseudonym, "liberating in the knowledge that you could indulge in whatever fantasies of violence you might have." Although Metroland, which was published in 1980, took Barnes eight years to write, Duffy took less than two weeks to decide "what it would be like to write in a targeted way."

Staring at the Sun in 1986, another exciting book about a woman growing up in postwar England and dealing with issues of love, truth, and mortality followed. Barnes published A History of the World in 102 chapters, which is also a non-linear book, in 1989, and it challenges societal myths and knowledge in general.

He wrote Talking It Over, a contemporary love triangle in which the three characters take turns to talk to the reader, referring to common events. This was followed by a sequel, Love, etc., which retold the tales ten years later. Barnes' book The Porcupine revisits a historical setting by depicting Stoyo Petkanov's conviction as the former Communist president of a failed Communist republic in Eastern Europe as he stands accused of crimes against his country. As the entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight that mimics some of England's tourist spots, England is a comedic book that examines national identity.

Arthur & George, a fictional account of a true crime that was investigated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, launched Barnes' career into the more mainstream mainstream. It was the first of his books to be included on the New York Times bestsellers list for Hardback Fiction.

Barnes' 1996 book Cross Channel tracing Britain's ties with France. In Something to Declare, a series of essays on French topics, he also returned to France.

Barnes undertook a rare acting role as Georges Simenon's voice in a BBC Radio 4 series of Inspector Maigret adaptations.

The Sense of an Ending, Barnes' eleventh book, was released on August 4, 2011. The Man Booker Prize was given to the book in October of that year. The judges took 31 minutes to determine the winner and head judge Stella Rimington said The Sense of an Ending was a "beautifully written book" and that the panel considered it "spoke to humankind in the 21st century." The Sense of an Ending won the Europeliteratuurprijs and appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list for several weeks.

Levels of Life, published in 2013 by Barnes. The first section of the exhibit discusses early ballooning and aerial photography, as well as Gaspard-Félix Tournachon's work. Fred Burnaby and French actor Sarah Bernhardt are both balloonists, and the second part is a short story about them. The third part of Barnes' article about his wife, Pat Kavanagh's death (although she is not identified): "You put together two people who have not been put together before." . .. It's a good thing when it works, and it's a new one that's made, and the entire world is changed. . .. I was thirty-two years old when we met, sixty-two when she died. The life of my heart; the center of my life. "Its resonance comes from all it does not say," Blake Morrison said of the third section of The Guardian, "it comes from all it doesn't say, as well as what it does;" it says; from the depth of love we infer from the desert of grief."

Barnes took on the British government in 2013 for its "slip down the world league table for literacy" and its "ideological worship of the market," as quasi-religious as nature-worship, and an ever-widening divide between rich and poor.

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Awards and honours

• 1981 Somerset Maugham Award
• 1985 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
• 1986 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1992 Prix Femina Étranger, winner, Talking It Over
• 1993 Shakespeare Prize
• 2004 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2004 Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier, 1988).
• 2008 San Clemente literary prize
• 2011 David Cohen Prize for Literature.
• 2011 Booker Prize, winner, The Sense of an Ending
• 2011 Costa Book Awards, shortlist, The Sense of an Ending
• 2012 Europese Literatuurprijs
• 2015 Zinklar Award at the first annual Blixen Ceremony in Copenhagen
• 2016 Siegfried Lenz Prize
• 2021 Jerusalem Prize