Biography of Julian Barnes

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January 19, 1946 Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He studied at the City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern languages in 1968. He worked for four years as a lexicographer pre the Oxford English Dictionary, then moved to London to study law. In London began his career as a journalist, which attracts most of the studies in law. Thus began a long period of collaboration to Barnes for newspapers and magazines: the New Review, acting as Deputy Director in the years 1977 and 1978, with the New Statesman and Sunday Times editor from 1977 to 1982, as television critic until 1986 for the New Statesman and The Observer. He devoted himself to the task of novelist since 1986, without however abandoning the world of journalism. For his work receives numerous awards during the years ' 80: Maugham award (1981), Booker Prize nominee (1984), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1985), and the Prix Médicis Essai prix Femnina (1986), e. m. Forster Award (1986), Gutemberg Prize (1987). In 1990 takes a job as a correspondent for the New Yorker. Eclectic talent and genius, is considered one of the greatest English writers and his works are striking for the stature of style and the ability to blend quite naturally different kinds. His novels and short stories are seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. Julian Barnes, who now lives in London and writes full time, also has written between 1980 and 1987-detective novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
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