Julian Barnes was fourth time lucky at this year's Man Booker prize[1] with his latest novel 'The Sense of an Ending' winning the prestigious award, in the middle of a raging row between 'readability' and 'literary merit'.British author Barnes, 65, won the 50,000 pounds prize for his latest novel which is a tale of childhood friendship and the imperfections of memory.
London-based Barnes, whose novels were shortlisted on three previous occasions for the Man Booker prize was fourth time lucky and was the bookies favourite to win, but had once described the prize as 'posh bingo'.
Barnes was previously nominated for the prize thrice, but without success, in 1984 for 'Flaubert's Parrot', in 1998 for 'England, England' and in 2005 for 'Arthur and George'.
The other nominees for the prize were Carol Birch ('Jamrach's Menagerie'); Canadians Patrick deWitt ('The Sisters Brothers') and Esi Edugyan ('Half Blood Blues'); and debut authors Stephen Kelman ('Pigeon
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.First awarded in 1968.
