tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-303043952024-03-14T09:01:19.132+00:00JulianBarnes.com -- Featured Items BlogAn outlet for news and info on Barnes-related books, online features, audio-visual materials, and other miscellaneous and/or curious items.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-55652668459806643982013-03-18T23:53:00.003+00:002013-03-18T23:55:45.876+00:00London Review of Books Limited Edition
Julian Barnes's new book Levels of Life will be issued in a limited edition by the London Review Bookshop. This is an exclusive limited first edition of Levels of Life, signed before publication by the author and published in association with Jonathan Cape.
There are 50 copies only (plus 3 hors commerce), 35 of which have been quarter-bound in Harmatan Black fine leather and Duo Linde cloth Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-16323409993760950442012-06-23T23:59:00.001+01:002012-06-23T23:59:54.945+01:00Julian Barnes Awarded the European Literature Prize
Julian Barnes's novel Alsof het voorbij is (Atlas), translated from English by Ronald Vlek, has been selected as the winner of the European Literature Prize. The prize goes to both the author and the translator of the best European novel to appear in Dutch translation in 2011. The prize will be presented on Saturday 1 September during Manuscripta in Amsterdam.
The jury on The Sense of an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-52130769874447693232012-06-23T23:54:00.002+01:002012-06-23T23:54:49.645+01:00Julian Barnes -- A Life with Books
Julian Barnes has written a pamphlet titled A Life with Books, an essay specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week. The pamphlet will be supplied exclusively to independent bookshops with all proceeds to benefit Freedom from Torture.
In the essay, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-66909056483054379502012-01-29T15:59:00.001+00:002012-01-29T16:26:26.620+00:00Previously Unseen Extract from Julian Barnes's Novel England, EnglandThe Library Book aids The Reading Agency’s library programmes -- From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-39500458954496305142011-12-20T17:06:00.000+00:002011-12-20T17:06:12.920+00:00Julian Barnes on Sibelius's Home, Ainola Julian Barnes explores the house where Sibelius lived, died, wrote much of his music -- and spent decades not writing, or not publishing ...
"Where Sibelius Fell Silent." More Intelligent Life January/February 2012.
From the Article:
"There are two famous silences in the history of classical music: those of Rossini and Sibelius. Rossini’s, which lasted nearly 40 years, was a worldly, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-83602044803099828982011-10-20T01:56:00.000+01:002011-10-20T01:56:28.368+01:00Julian Barnes Wins the 2011 Man Booker PrizeJulian Barnes has been named the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sense of an Ending, published by Jonathan Cape, Random House Canada, and Alfred A. Knopf.
Barnes has been shortlisted three times previously for Arthur and George (2005), England, England (1998) and Flaubert's Parrot (1984).
The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-17126064322011756092011-07-21T17:12:00.000+01:002011-07-21T17:12:17.042+01:00The Sense of an Ending: Signed, Limited Edition from London Review BookshopThe London Review Bookshop is offering a signed, limited first edition of The Sense of an Ending, published in association with Jonathan Cape, comprising 100 copies, 75 of which have been quarter-bound in Tusting Chestnut fine grain leather with Rainforest cloth sides, numbered 1 to 75, and 25 copies fully bound in the same leather, numbered i to xxv. All books have head and tail bands, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-31632812671771154032011-07-21T17:03:00.000+01:002011-07-21T17:03:19.099+01:00Win a Signed Copy of Julian Barnes's The Sense of an EndingThe Julian Barnes Website is working with Jonathan Cape to offer the chance to win a signed copy of the Cape edition of Julian Barnes's new novel The Sense of an Ending, published August 4th.
Please email the correct answer to the question below to contest@julianbarnes.com to be entered into a random drawing for one of the signed copies. We will forward a handful of randomly selected names Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-54146075585061500022011-07-17T17:11:00.000+01:002011-07-17T17:11:52.718+01:00Julian Barnes on Voltaire's CandideJulian Barnes writes "A Candid View of Candide" for The Guardian (1 July 2011), in which he pays tribute to Voltaire's Candide. Barnes's essay introduces the new Folio Society edition of the book, available via the Folio Society Website.
From the Essay:
All this makes Voltaire's Candide even more of an extraordinary case. It was written between July and December 1758 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-51837448976659664902011-07-17T16:57:00.000+01:002011-07-17T16:57:03.247+01:00The Sense of an Ending (Extract)The Telegraph has published an extract from Julian Barnes's soon to be published novel The Sense of an Ending.
The Sense of an Ending, the disturbing new novel from Julian Barnes, is narrated by a man looking back on a lifetime of hope and remorse. In this exclusive extract, he grapples with his memories of a former friend -- a charismatic figure who enters his life as a prodigious Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-50702614963019007232011-06-28T15:57:00.000+01:002011-06-28T15:57:25.726+01:00New Fiction -- "Homage to Hemingway"Julian Barnes's new short story "Homage to Hemingway" is published in the July 4, 2011 issue of The New Yorker (pp. 60-65). Online subscribers have access to the story through the New Yorker digital archive or via their iPads.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-91917303949895675802011-06-28T15:55:00.000+01:002011-06-28T15:55:32.549+01:00Julian Barnes on Jules RenardJulian Barnes reviews Nature Stories by Jules Renard for the London Review of Books 33.13 (30 June 2011): 23-24.
From the Review:
I own two photographs of Jules Renard (1864-1910). There is no indication of when either of them was taken, and at times I have wondered if they are really of the same man. In the first, from a series called ‘Nos contemporains chez eux’, he sits at a cluttered desk; Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-30361634761788796872011-06-28T15:49:00.001+01:002011-06-28T15:51:37.165+01:00New Books on Julian BarnesTwo new books about the works of Julian Barnes were recently published. Both treatments add to the growing scholarly treatment of Barnes's work. Table of contents can be viewed on the Julian Barnes Website.
Sebastian Groes & Peter Childs, Eds.Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives)Continuum, 2011. Pp. 192
From the Publisher:
Julian Barnes is one of the most admired British Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-83251607108399571032011-03-18T02:41:00.000+00:002011-03-18T02:41:02.367+00:00David Cohen Prize for Literature 2011The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2011 has been awarded to the English novelist, essayist and short story writer Julian Barnes for his lifetime’s achievement in literature. Visit the award website for more information and visit the Front Row website to listen to an interview with Julian Barnes and Mark Lawson.
Julian Barnes is one of England’s foremost fiction writers. Shortlisted on three Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-64764756236941542011-02-09T16:16:00.000+00:002011-02-09T16:16:27.167+00:00Julian Barnes Reads 'The Revival'Julian Barnes reads 'The Revival' for the Vintage Podcast 5.
In the Vintage New Year Podcast they’ve turned the spotlight on their editors and asked them to give us a sneak preview of the books we can look forward to in 2011. Alex Clark talks to Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe, Susan Hill reads from A Kind Man, Anthony Quinn talks about his new novel Half of the Human Race, Julian Barnes Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-56701942872803394462010-12-30T14:32:00.003+00:002010-12-30T14:38:55.570+00:00Tribute to Anthony Howard
" 'Under the briskness, he was a softie'." Observer, 26 December 2010 [A tribute to Anthony Howard, Julian's editor at the New Statesman].
From the piece:My job interview with Anthony Howard at the New Statesman in 1977 did not go as expected. I was summoned to his office prepared for interrogation on my literary and editorial skills, not to mention my political tendencies. The job asUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-50436346344808169812010-12-18T18:01:00.000+00:002010-12-18T18:01:24.396+00:00Julian Barnes reads Homage To Switzerland by Ernest HemingwayJulian Barnes
Homage to Switzerland, by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
'I chose Ernest Hemingway because he is deeply out of fashion, still over-admired by the literary boys-with-toys brigade, still shunned by women readers put off by the macho myth. His style is wrongly thought to be both simple and imitable; it is neither. His novels are better known than his stories, but it is in the latter Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-77396061309490663072010-03-04T04:32:00.000+00:002010-03-04T04:32:59.868+00:00Birds of Prey: Seven Sardonic StoriesAn excerpt from Julian Barnes's novel Flaubert's Parrot makes an appearance in Birds of Prey: Seven Sardonic Stories, published by Rare Books and Berry in April 2010. Other writers in the collection include Salman Rushdie, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier.
From the Publisher:
Birds of Prey is an extraordinary anthology that has brought together authors from the past and the present; from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-60639814623501552572010-02-21T17:42:00.001+00:002010-02-21T17:42:34.389+00:00Julian Barnes Website now on FacebookBecome of fan of the Julian Barnes Website on Facebook by visiting our page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Julian-Barnes-Website/307118768275.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-9241689813826485592010-01-23T07:54:00.000+00:002010-01-23T07:54:06.665+00:00Two New Stories by Julian BarnesJulian Barnes's new short story "Harmony" was published in Granta 109: Work.You may order a copy of the issue online at the Granta website or on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
And on the first anniversary of John Updike's death, Barnes publishes "Sleeping with John Updike" in The Guardian, 23 January 2010.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-56381275825233015442010-01-08T03:01:00.001+00:002010-01-08T03:02:07.185+00:00Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24901 set by BrendanTry your hand at a Julian Barnes themed crossword at the Guardian.
Click the image to the right to visit the Guardian website. You can try the crossword online or print it out in PDF format to take with you.
Good luck!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-74453084936603622292010-01-05T14:16:00.003+00:002010-01-05T14:17:51.293+00:00Arthur & George on Stage
The Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company and Nottingham Playhouse present
Arthur & George
Adapted for the stage by David Edgar
Based on the novel by Julian Barnes
Fri., 19 Mar 2010 – Sat., 10 Apr 2010.
Birmingham solicitor George Edalji has been convicted of a terrible crime and is desperate to prove his innocence. After his release from prison he recruits the help of none other than Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-8356126421211365482009-11-28T19:43:00.000+00:002009-11-28T19:43:29.472+00:00Books of the YearJulian Barnes contributes his books of the year for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.
His selections include Laura Cumming's A Face to the World (HarperPress), Adam Foulds's The Quickening Maze (Cape), and several titles by John Updike.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-62251342664062678012009-11-09T18:39:00.000+00:002009-11-09T18:39:27.428+00:00Barnes on MaupassantJulian Barnes reviews Guy de Maupassant's Afloat (ranslated by Douglas Parméen) and Alien Hearts (translated by Richard Howard), both published by NYRB. "On We Sail" London Review of Books, 31.21, 5 November 2009: 25-28.
Excerpt:
One of the great examples of literary advice-giving took place in the summer of 1878. Guy de Maupassant was on the verge of becoming famous. As Flaubert’s literary Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30304395.post-12321922493115772802009-11-09T18:29:00.000+00:002009-11-09T18:29:35.232+00:00"Complicity" -- New Short StoryJulian Barnes's new short story "Complicity" was published in the 19 October 2009 issue of The New Yorker.
Excerpt:
The first time I met her was at a party of Ben’s; she had brought her mother. Have you watched mothers and daughters at parties together, and tried to work out who is taking care of whom? The daughter giving Mum a bit of an outing, Mum watching for the sort of men her daughter Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0