Achievements and interesting aspects
I consider interesting the followings achievements and aspects because thanks to these prizes and recognitions people know a bit more about Julian Barnes and his works.
- 1980: He writes Metroland and Duffy (the last work was written by Julian Barnes as Dan Kavanagh)
- 1981: He is award-winning with the Somerset Maugham Award for Metroland.
- 1982: He publishes Before She Met Me.
- 1984: He writes Flaubert’s Parrot and thanks to this work he is nominated for Booker Prize of Fiction.
- 1985: He recives the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Flaubert’s Parrot. He writes, in this year, Putting the book in as Dan Kavanagh.
- 1986: He publishes Starting at the Sun and he recives the E.M. Forster Award. He also is award-winning with Prix Médicis for Flaubert’s Parrot.
- 1987: He writes Going to the Dogs as Dan Kavanagh.
- 1988: He is mentioned Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- 1989: He writes A history of the world in 101/2 chapters
- 1991: He publishes Talking it over
- 1992: He writes The porcupine.
- 1993: Julian Barnes is award-winning with Shakespeare Prize.
- 1995: He publishes Letters from London (journalism from The New Yorker) and he is mentioned Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- 1996: He writes Cross Channel.
- 1998: He is nominated for the Booked Prize for fiction thanks to England, England a satirical science fiction novel that he wrote in the same year.
- 2000: He publishes Love, etc.
- 2002: He writes Something to Declare.
- 2003: He publishes The Pendant in the kitchen (journalism on cooking)
- 2004: He writes The lemon table and he recived the Australian State prize for European Literature, and in this year he is mentioned Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2005: He writes Arthur and George. Thanks to this book, he is nominated for Man Booker Prize for Fiction
- 2006: He is nominated for Commonwealth Writers Prize, for Arthur and George
- 2007: He is nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, again for Arthur and George
- 2008: He writes Nothing to be frightened of. In this year his wife died.
- 2009: He is nominated for Duff Cooper Prize.
To summarize, I think all his works and prizes are very important because it shows that the author’s works are aprreciated by the public and by other writers. Also I admire him to win all these prizes because this means that his works are well-valued and above all, I admire him because I appreciate people thath have this imaginative capacity. Because of the reasons desenvoluped before, I think it is positive to have all this prizes and nominations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barnes#Works_28novels_unless_otherwise_indicated.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barnes#Works_as_Dan_Kavanagh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barnes#Awards_and_Recognitions