![]() ![]() He then went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964. ![]() In 1956, the family moved to Northwood, Middlesex, the "Metroland" of his first novel. At the age of 10, Barnes was told by his mother that he had "too much imagination". He has said that his support for Leicester City Football Club was, aged four or five, "a sentimental way of hanging on" to his home city. Both of his parents were French teachers. ![]() Early life īarnes was born in Leicester, although his family moved to the outer suburbs of London six weeks afterwards. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. ![]()
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