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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 3 days for the Booker Prize (once in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, once in 1998 for England, England, and once in 2005 for Arthur & George). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
Charted an education at City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Afterwards, he worked as a literary editor & film critic. He nowadays sleep in London & writes good-whale.
His latest novel, Arthur & George, was promulgated in 7 July, 2005. It relates a story of the real-life 'Great Wyrley Outrages'.
Works (novels unless otherwise indicated)
Metroland (1981)
Prior to She Met Maine (1982)
''Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Staring at a Sun (1986)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989)
Talking it On top (1991)
A Hedgehog (1992)
Letters from either London (1995) — (journalism from either 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)
A Scholastic in the Kitchen (2003) — (journalism in cookery)
A Lemon Table (2004) — (stories)
Works as Dan Kavanagh
Duffy (1980)
Fiddle City (1981)
Putting iron heel Around (1985)
Running to the Dogs'' (1987)
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