Julian Barnes

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Image:J Barnes.JPG 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 Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). 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. His brother, Jonathan Barnes is a philosopher specializing in ancient philosophy.

As the writer Tony Barrell has pointed out (London Sunday Times, January 8, 2006), Barnes was born on the same day as the American country singer Dolly Parton, and both have theme park connections. Barnes wrote the novel England, England, and Parton has her own substantial theme park in Tennessee: Dollywood.

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.

1 Works (novels unless otherwise indicated)
2 Works as Dan Kavanagh
3 See also
4 External links

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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)
Arthur & George (2005)