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Julian Barnes
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Julian Barnes is an English essayist, novelist and short story writer, noted for fiction and nonfiction works including essays, memoirs and The Man in the Red Coat.
Biography
Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English essayist, novelist and short story writer. After completing his education he spent three years as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement. His first novels, Metroland (1980) and Before She Met Me (1982), were followed by Flaubert's Parrot, which was shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize and won the 1985 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the 1986 Prix Médicis Essai. Later work in that decade included Staring at the Sun and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters.
Barnes has published novels, short story collections, essays, memoirs and a nonfiction book, The Man in the Red Coat, and translated In the Land of Pain. Talking It Over (1991) won the 1992 Prix Femina étranger, and Arthur & George and The Sense of an Ending were both major prize contenders, the latter winning the 2011 Booker Prize. He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh and received multiple international honours, and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Books by Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending (2011) follows Tony Webster, a retired man who must revisit a past he had long set aside when the reappearance of childhood friends and a mysterious legacy force him to reassess his memories and his place in the world. The novel won the 2011 Booker Prize.