"Oliver needed someone like Stuart around. It's the same as colour theory. When you put two colours side by side, that affects the way you see each of them."
--Julian Barnes, Talking It Over
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| Mrs. Dalloway | | The Hours | | The French Lieutenant's Woman | | Possession | | Talking It Over | | Success |
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JULIAN BARNES (1946- )
Biography Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in modern languages (with honors) in 1968. After graduation, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement for three years. In 1977, Barnes began working as a reviewer and literary editor for the New Statesmen and the New Review. From 1979 to 1986 he worked as a television critic, first for the New Statesmen and then for the Observer (London). Barnes has received several awards and honors for his writing including the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland 1981), two Booker Prize nominations (Flaubert's Parrot 1984, England, England 1998); Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (FP 1985); Prix Micis (FP 1986); E. M. Forster Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986); Gutenberg Prize (1987); Grinzane Cavour Prize (Italy, 1988); and the Prix Femina (Talking It Over 1992). Barnes was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1988 and became an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation. Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. He has also translated a book by French author Alphonse Daudet and a collection of German cartoons by Volker Kriegel. His writing has earned him considerable respect as an author who deals with the themes of history, reality, truth and love. As Dan Kavanagh, Barnes has written four crime novels centered around Duffy, a free-lance security system specialist. Barnes
currently lives in London where he is busy writing. His latest novel
is Love, etc, a continuation of his novel Talking It Over.
A collection of essays about cooking The Pedant in the Kitchen
was published by Atlantic Books in October 2003. A collection of short
stories The Lemon Table will be published in the U.K. in March.
Source: http://www.julianbarnes.com/ |
