Julian Barnes
Julian
Barnes, a British novelist, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book “The
Sense of an Ending,” a slim and meditative story of mortality, frustration and
regret.
“The Sense
of an Ending” is Mr. Barnes’s 11th novel — a 163-page book that has sometimes
been called a novella for its size and simplicity.
Writing in
The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani said the book “manages to create genuine
suspense as a sort of psychological detective story. We not only want to find
out how Mr. Barnes’s narrator, Tony Webster, has rewritten his own history —
and discover what actually happened some 40 years ago — but also understand why
he has needed to do so.”
Mr. Barnes,
who lives in London, has been nominated for the Booker three times in the past,
for his novels “Flaubert’s Parrot,” “England, England” and “Arthur &
George.”
The prize,
Britain’s best-known literary award, is given annually to a novel by an author
in Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations. The award is
accompanied by a check for about $78,000.
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