Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is an English essayist, novelist and short story writer who spent three years as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary supplement before his first novel, Metroland, appeared in 1980. His books include Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters and The Sense of an Ending, which won the Booker Prize in 2011. He also wrote four crime novels as Dan Kavanagh, alongside essay collections and short stories.