Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes
Barnes kao frankofil i frankofon u emisiji Bernarda Pivota Double je (France 2, 2005)
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	19. 1. 1946. (1946-01-19) (dob: 78) Leicester, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Pseudonim	Dan Kavanagh (kriminalistički roman), Edward Pygge
Nacionalnost
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac
Opus
Književne vrste	proza
Inspiracija
Od Gustave Flaubert, Frank O'Connor, Ford Madox Ford
Web-stranica
Official Website of Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (Leicester, 19.1. 1946.-) je suvremeni engelski pisac. Tri puta su mu romani bili nominirani za Bookerovu nagradu (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). Pisao je krimi-romane pod pseudonimom Dan Kavanagh.

Osobni život

Nakon što se obrazovao u Školi City of London i oksfordskom Merton Collegeu, radio je kao leksikograf za Oxford English Dictionary. Nakon toga je radio kao književni urednik i filmski kritičar. Danas se stalno bavi pisanjem. Njegov brat Jonathan Barnes je filozof specijaliziran za antičku filozofiju.

Njegova žena, Pat Kavanagh, koja je bila je književni agent, umrla je 20. oktobra 2008. od posledica tumora na mozgu.

Djela

• 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 (Picador, London, 1995) — zbirka članaka za The New Yorker, ISBN 0-330-34116-2
• Cross Channel (1996) — priče
• England, England (1998)
• Love, Etc. (2000)
• Something to Declare (2002) — eseji
• The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003) — kulinarski članci
• The Lemon Table (2004) — priče
• Arthur & George (2005)
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008)

Kao Dan Kavanagh

• Duffy (1980)
• Fiddle City (1981)
• Putting the Boot In (1985)
• Going to the Dogs (1987)

Literatura o Barnesu

• Merritt Moseley, Understanding Julian Barnes, University of South Carolina Press (1997)
• Vanessa Guignery, The fiction of Julian Barnes: A reader's guide to essential criticism, Palgrave Macmillan (2006)
• Matthew Pateman, Julian Barnes: Writers and Their Work, Northcote House, (2002)
• Bruce Sesto, Language, History, And Metanarrative In the Fiction of Julian Barnes, Peter Lang (2001)

Vanjske veze

• Official Website of Julian Barnes
• Official Website of Dan Kavanagh (pseudonym)
• British Council site
• Publisher's Website - includes facts about Barnes and Arthur & George
• Guardian Books "Author Page" - with profile and links to further articles.
• Šablon:WiredForBooks
• Šablon:Contemporary writers
• Julian Barnes na Internet Book List
• Interview Arhivirano 2006-10-25 na Wayback Machine-u on BBC HARDtalk Extra programme - broadcast on 22nd September, 2006
• Audio interview from Writing Lab on open2.net