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Name: Julian Barnes  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 8th November 1949
   
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Barnes as  Francophile and Francophone in Bernard Pivot's Double je (France 2, March 2005)

Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester) is a contemporary British writer whose novels and short stories have been seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize (once in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, once in 1998 for England, England, and once in 2005 for Arthur & George). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.

Following an education at City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked as a literary editor and film critic. He now lives in London and writes full-time.

Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear, distant, savage and solitary. I went along with this, I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie; but perhaps he was really just a parrot. – Flaubert's Parrot, 151.

His latest novel, Arthur and George, was published on 7 July, 2005. It relates the story of the real-life 'Great Wyrley Outrages'.

Works (novels unless otherwise indicated)

  • Metroland (1981)
  • Before She Met Me (1982)
  • Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
  • Staring at the Sun (1986)
  • A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)
  • Talking it Over (1991)
  • The Porcupine (1992)
  • Letters from London (1995) — (journalism from The New Yorker)
    • Picador, London, ISBN 0-330-34116-2
  • Cross Channel (1996) — (stories)
  • England, England (1998)
  • Love, Etc. (2000)
  • Something to Declare (2002) — (essays)
  • The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003) — (journalism on cooking)
  • The Lemon Table (2004) — (stories)

Works as Dan Kavanagh

  • Duffy (1980)
  • Fiddle City (1981)
  • Putting the Boot In (1985)
  • Going to the Dogs (1987)

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