Julian Barnes has published dozens of works of fiction and nonfiction that have received much critical acclaim. He’s also received several awards and honors, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his eleventh novel The Sense of an Ending. His novels Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005) were also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Barnes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize in 1993 and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004. In 2011, he won the David Cohen Prize for Literature, a biannual award for lifetime achievement in literature to citizens of the UK and Ireland.
Born in Leicester in 1946 but raised in suburban London,...
