We welcome one of the most influential writers of contemporary English literature whose career has marked the reading experience of many generations.. They are already essential works Flaubert's parrot, Elizabeth Finch, England, England y, very especially, The sense of an ending. In his most recent work, Farewells (Anagram and Angle, 2026), returns with a reflection about memory, the persistence of love, the game, the idea of the end and the need to learn to say goodbye. As in other of his books, the reader does not know what is fiction and what is not. What you do know, Without a doubt, It is a pleasure to read everything he writes.. If not, ask the writer and journalist Lucia Lijtmaer., who will have the honor of speaking with Barnes just after the author has made a first intervention of about twenty minutes, unpublished and prepared expressly for this visit.
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Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946), considered one of the greatest revelations of English fiction in recent decades. His novels have been published in Anagrama Metrolandia (Premio Somerset Maugham 1981), Flaubert's parrot (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and, In France, Medici Award), Before we met, Talking about the matter (Fémina Award for the best foreign novel published in France), England, England, The sense of an ending (Booker Prize), Elizabeth Finch, The perfectionist in the kitchen, Nothing to fear, the story books Across the Channel, The lemon table y Pulse, the essays With eyes wide open, The man in the red coat y My changes of mind, among others. Has also received, among other awards, the E Prize. M. Forster de la American Academy of Arts and Letters, the William Shakespeare of the FvS Foundation in Hamburg and the Man Booker, he is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Lucia Lijtmaer, journalist, Spanish-Argentine writer and cultural critic. He is a specialist in pop culture and gender perspective. She is also a cultural commissioner, literary translator and university professor. Collaborate with various media outlets, among them Cadena SER, The country, elDiario.es, RAC1 and Raw meat.
