Julian Barnes

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 twice been short listed for the Booker Prize (once in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot and once in 1998 for England, England). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.

Works (novels unless otherwise indicated)

• Metroland (1981)
• 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 (1995) — (journalism from 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)
• The Pedant in the Kitchen (2003) — (journalism on cooking)
• The Lemon Table (2004) — (stories)