British · b. 1946
Julian Barnes won the 2011 Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending," a novella about memory's unreliability and the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. The British author has been shortlisted for the Booker four times and writes fiction, essays, and criticism with equal facility. Barnes's work examines history, France, and death with wit and elegance. "Flaubert's Parrot" established his reputation for formally inventive literary fiction.