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Julian Patrick Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize ( Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.

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