Julian Barnes

Barnes as Francophile and Francophone in Bernard Pivot's Double je (France 2, March 2005)

Arthur & George (2005), 2006 Vintage paperback edition

Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer of part-French descent 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.

[edit] Personal life

Following an education at the 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 writes full-time. His brother, Jonathan Barnes is a philosopher specializing in ancient philosophy.

He lives in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh.

Metroland (1980)
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)