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Julian Barnes: Beyond the Page

Acclaimed and award-winning writer Julian Barnes talks to Katie Razzall about his literary life, preoccupation with death, why he's written his final novel and missing his readers.

Julian Barnes: How a 'very unconfident man' went on to be feted as one of the best of British novelists of the 1980s. Scaling the heights of literary greatness with works such as Flaubert's Parrot and The Sense of an Ending, he's now penned his final novel.

The award-winning writer talks to the BBC's culture editor, Katie Razzall, about his career, his thoughts on death and saying farewell to his novels and readers.

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28 minutes

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Mon 30 Mar 202601:30
BBC News Channel

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InterviewerKatie Razzall
Interviewed GuestJulian Barnes

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