Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) was educated in London and Oxford. It is considered one of the greatest revelations of the English narrative of the last decades. He is the author of twelve novels, published by Anagram: Metrolandia (Somerset Maugham Award 1981), Before we meet, Flaubert's Parrot (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and in France Medici Prize), Looking at the Sun, A History of the World in Ten Chapters and a half, Speaking of the subject (Fame Prize for the best foreign novel published in France), Porcupine, England, England, Love, et cetera, Arthur & George, The Meaning of an End and Life Levels, On the other side of the Channel, The table lemon and Pulse, the delicious tomito The perfectionist in the kitchen and the memorialistic book Nothing to fear. He has also received, among other awards, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, William Shakespeare of the Hamburg FvS Foundation and Man Booker, and is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.