Julian Barnesย is the author ofย more than 20 books, including Keeping an The Sense of an Ending,ย The Noise of Time, andย Eye Open: Essays on Art. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Mรฉdicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004, he was named Commandeur de lโOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.