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Julian Barnes


(Julian Patrick Barnes)
UK flag (b.1946)

aka Dan Kavanagh

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.
 

Awards: Booker (2011), SoA (1981)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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Changing My Mind
 
Series
Talking It Over
   1. Talking It Over (1991)
   2. Love, etc (2000)
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Novels
   Metroland (1980)
   Before She Met Me (1982)
   Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
   Staring At the Sun (1986)
   A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)
   The Porcupine (1992)
   England, England (1998)
   Arthur and George (2005)
   The Sense of an Ending (2011)
   The Noise of Time (2016)
   The Only Story (2018)
   Elizabeth Finch (2022)
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Collections
   Cross Channel (1996)
   The Lemon Table (2004)
   Birds of Prey (2010) (with others)
   Pulse (2011)
   Bark / The Silence (2011)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Evermore (1996)
   Appetite (2011)
   The Fruit Cage (2011)
   Hygiene (2011)
   Knowing French (2011)
   The Revival (2011)
   A Short History of Hairdressing (2011)
   The Story of Mats Israelson (2011)
   The Things You Know (2011)
   Vigilance (2011)
   Explaining the Explicit (2013) (with David Bellos, Sarah Churchwell, Vicki Feaver, Rachel Johnson and Jill Waters)
   Homage to Hemingway (2015)
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Series contributed to
Vintage Minis
   Death (2017)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Books containing stories by Julian Barnes
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The Vintage Book of War Stories (1999)
edited by
Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen

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Awards
2011 Booker Prize : The Sense of an Ending
1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
1981 Somerset Maugham Award : Metroland

Award nominations
2011 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Sense of an Ending
2007 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Arthur and George
2006 Richard and Judy Award (nominee) : Arthur and George
2005 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Arthur and George
1998 Booker Prize (shortlist) : England, England
1984 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Flaubert's Parrot


Julian Barnes recommends
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret (1993)
Patrick Marnham
"I doubt if there will be a better, or a better written, portrait of Simenon for a long time."
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In the Dutch Mountains (1987)
Cees Nooteboom
"A poet's fairy tale, elegant and beguilling."
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Don't Point That Thing at Me (1972)
(Mortdecai, book 1)
Kyril Bonfiglioli
"A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasentness."

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