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Julian Barnes

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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. 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. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories, as well as two memoirs and a nonfiction book, The Man in the Red Coat, about people of Belle Époque Paris in the arts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Barnes is the 855th most popular writer (down from 841st in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 636th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular British Writer.

Julian Barnes is most famous for his novel, "The Sense of an Ending," which won the Man Booker Prize in 2011.

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Among writers, Julian Barnes ranks 855 out of 7,302. Before him are Ali Shariati, Eugène Scribe, Michael Crichton, Menippus, Jonas Lie, and Andrea Camilleri. After him are Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Gaius Lucilius, Al-Zamakhshari, Georges Bernanos, and Yanka Kupala.

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Among people born in 1946, Julian Barnes ranks 92. Before him are Uri Geller, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Peter Singer, Xanana Gusmão, Daniel Goleman, and Chris Slade. After him are Gilbert O'Sullivan, Gerard 't Hooft, Birutė Galdikas, John C. Mather, Ahmed Zewail, and Brian Cox.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Barnes ranks 801 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony James Leggett (1938), Chris Slade (1946), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Malcolm Young (1953), John Surtees (1934), and Ramsay MacDonald (1866). After him are Annie Lennox (1954), Michael Powell (1905), Charles Laughton (1899), Dua Lipa (1995), Oliver Smithies (1925), and Martin Evans (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Julian Barnes ranks 83. Before him are Henry Fielding (1707), Ben Jonson (1572), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), John Bunyan (1628), and William McMaster Murdoch (1873). After him are Douglas Adams (1952), James May (1963), Ian McEwan (1948), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Wilkie Collins (1824).

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