Inspirational Quotes by Julian Barnes (British Novelist, Critic)

Julian Patrick Barnes (b.1946,) pseudonyms Edward Pygge and Dan Kavanagh, is a British novelist, critic. He is renowned for his imaginative and intellectual novels about characters obsessed about the past.

Born in Leicester, East Midlands, to French teachers, Barnes studied French literature at Oxford. After graduation, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. He wrote a couple of novels, and then he went back to the study of French literature.

Barnes is the author of The History of the World in Ten-and-a-Half Chapters (1989) and Flaubert’s Parrot (1984.) The latter won prizes for fiction in both England and France. Barnes also wrote a series of conventional detective novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, including Putting the Boot In (1985) and Going to the Dogs (1986.)

Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011.) Three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert’s Parrot, England, England (1998,) and Arthur & George (2005.)

Nothing To Be Frightened Of (2008) is a blend of nonfiction, memoir, and musings about death. The Noise of Time (2016) dramatizes episodes from the life of Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich.

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