"Julian Patrick Barnes" is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.

In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

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People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

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The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides.

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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

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The secret of happiness is to be happy already.

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I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

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In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.

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I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set when it is set.

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I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle.

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