Julian Barnes Wins Guy Booker Prize, Major Sales Boost Expected

Author Julian Barnes required home Britain's Guy Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, Reuters reviews, after standing on the candidate three previous occasions. The 65-year-old author was out there back in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, England, England in 1998 as well as in 2005 for Arthur and George. Barnes won for that Feeling of an Ending, a 150-page book which was referred to like a novella by one rater. PHOTOS: 10 Greatest Book-to-Giant Screen Adaptations from the Last two-and-a-half decades Throughout Barnes' acceptance speech, he recommended Jorge Luis Borges, a writer who never won the Nobel Prize for literature. "Borges, when requested, because he constantly was, why he'd never won the Nobel Prize, used reply that 'In Sweden there is a little cottage industry exclusively dedicated to not giving Borges the Nobel Prize,' " he stated, before adding later, "I wondered whether there wasn't possibly some similar sister organization operating right here. And So I am just as much relieved like me delighted to get this year's Booker Prize." PHOTOS: Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin: Secret from the Unicorn' The win is anticipated to enhance book sales for Barnes, whose book focuses on an regular guy Tony who discovers that his reminiscences aren't as reliable because he once thought. Former British spy chief Stella Rimington, who oversaw the idol judges' panel this season, stated of Barnes' book, "We believed that it had been a magazine which, though short, was incredibly concentrated, and packed into this very short space a lot of information you don't get free from an initial reading through." She added, "It's among individuals these books, a really readable book, basically could use that word, but readable not just once but two times as well as three occasions." While Barnes' book might have been around the shorter side, it wasn't the least. Offshore, a 132-page book, by Penelope Fitzgerald holds that one recognition. Barnes can also be the writer of Metroland and performed themself in Bridget Johnson's Diary. Related Subjects Worldwide