Julian Barnes News
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Hilary Mantel and two first-time novelists were among six finalists for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award.
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Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction last night for “The Sense of an Ending,” a slim novel whose narrator must grapple with the fallibility of his memory and sense of self when a friend’s long-ago suicide returns to haunt him.
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Julian Barnes and two first-time novelists were among six finalists in the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award.
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Julian Barnes and Claire Tomalin were named two of 21 finalists for the Costa Book Awards, which pit authors of different genres against one another for a Book of the Year prize of 30,000 pounds ($48,000).
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The short stories in Julian Barnes’s new collection, “ Pulse ,” are animated by currents both physical and metaphysical.
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Best-selling authors Julian Barnes and Claire Tomalin took a back seat as Andrew Miller won the contest for top novel of 2011 and Matthew Hollis took the prize for best biography in Whitbread Plc’s annual Costa Book Awards.
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Andrew Miller won the Costa Book of the Year award last night for “Pure,” a novel about pre- Revolutionary France. He defeated four other authors including the bookies’ favorite, biographer Matthew Hollis, and the U.K. poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, to collect a prize of 30,000 pounds ($46,760).
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Never mind Philip Roth. This could finally be the year Syrian poet Adonis snags the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Stella Rimington has stared down KGB operatives and outwitted IRA militants. As the former director general of MI5 -- where she was both the first female boss and the first to be publicly named -- she’s no stranger to media scrutiny, either. Yet as head judge of this year’s Man Booker Prize, she finds herself flummoxed by the vitriol of London’s literati.
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