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Julian Patrick Barnes
Birth at
19 January 1949
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Julian Patrick Barnes was born in Leicester on January 19, 1946. His parents made sure that his son received a good education: Julian studied at the prestigious City of London School, then entered Magdalena College at Oxford. In 1987, Barnes received a diploma from Oxford University with honors. Already in his student years he was fond of writing. His path to literature began with the detective genre. Under the pseudonym Dan Cavanagh comes his story “Duffy”. His first novel, published under his
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Julian Patrick Barnes was born in Leicester on January 19, 1946. His parents made sure that his son received a good education: Julian studied at the prestigious City of London School, then entered Magdalena College at Oxford. In 1987, Barnes received a diploma from Oxford University with honors.
Already in his student years he was fond of writing. His path to literature began with the detective genre. Under the pseudonym Dan Cavanagh comes his story “Duffy”.
His first novel, published under his real name, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. “Metroland” tells about the fate of a whole generation of people whose youth fell on the turbulent, “hipp” 1960s.
The novel “The History of the World in 10 Chapters” (1989) is one of the most talented works not only in Barnes’ work, but also, perhaps, in all the literature of the XX century. Dystopia, written in the traditions of postmodernism, prompts the reader to think about the causal relationships of historical events, the fate of mankind and other issues from the category of “eternal”.
Julian Barnes did not want to stay within one particular genre, constantly trying himself in new qualities. And not without success: his love novel “How it all happened” was awarded the “Femina” prize, and the novel-research on the role of the author’s personality in the literature “Flaubert’s Parrot” was awarded the “Medici” prize. He applied for the prestigious Booker Prize three times, but received it only in 2011 for the novel “Sense of the End”.
Based on the novels of Julian Barnes “Metroland” and “Love and so on” in the UK and in France, feature films were shot.
Julian Barnes is currently a widower. His chosen one, Pat Cavanagh, who was also his literary agent, died of a malignant tumor in 2008.