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Julian Barnes

1946 - Today

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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Barnes has received more than 1,235,425 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Barnes is the 842nd most popular writer (down from 796th in 2019), the 636th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 649th in 2019) and the 76th most popular British Writer.

Julian Barnes is most famous for his novel, "The Sense of an Ending," which won the Man Booker Prize in 2011.

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  • 68.29

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  • 49

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  • 7.54

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  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julian Barnes ranks 842 out of 7,302. Before him are Dubravka Ugrešić, Thietmar of Merseburg, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Tibor Sekelj, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Miroslav Krleža. After him are Vittoria Colonna, Robert van Gulik, Heliodorus of Emesa, Juliette Récamier, Varlam Shalamov, and W. H. Auden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Julian Barnes ranks 78. Before him are Chris Slade, Uri Geller, Daniel Libeskind, Nicos Anastasiades, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, and Lasse Hallström. After him are Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Xanana Gusmão, Ahmed Zewail, Philip Pullman, Marilyn vos Savant, and Howard Shore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Barnes ranks 636 out of 8,785. Before him are Willibrord (658), William Shockley (1910), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), Alice Liddell (1852), John Bunyan (1628), and Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868). After him are Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Henry Bessemer (1813), Rudolf Abel (1903), W. H. Auden (1907), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), and James Hargreaves (1720).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Julian Barnes ranks 76. Before him are Thomas Hardy (1840), John le Carré (1931), Tony Buzan (1942), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edgar Wallace (1875), and John Bunyan (1628). After him are W. H. Auden (1907), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Wilkie Collins (1824), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Philip Pullman (1946), and Ben Jonson (1572).

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