Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes was born on Jan 19, 1946 in UK. Julian Barnes's big-screen debut came with Metroland directed by Philip Saville in 1997.

Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946 and attended the City of London School, later graduating from a college in Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1970s. Barnes began working as a reviewer and literary editor for the New Statesmen and the New Review publications in the late 1970s, and later worked as a television critic. He has received several awards and honors for his writing, and has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. Under the pseudonym of Dan Kavanagh, Barnes has also written several crime novels. He currently lives in London.