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Date of Birth
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19-January-1946
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Place of Birth
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Leicester
(United Kingdom, England, East Midlands, Leicestershire)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Julian Patrick Barnes, Dan Kavanagh, Edward Pygge, Julian Patrick Barnes, Dan Kavanagh, PC49, Fat Jeff, Edward Pygge, Waugh-lilke Basil Seal
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Profession
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Novelist, Writer, Essayist
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
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