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Author Julian Barnes, whose novels include Flaubert’s Parrot and England, England, has been presented with the David Cohen Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n

Past recipients of the \u00a340,000 prize, described by judges as the UK’s Nobel Prize for Literature, include Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing.<\/p>\n

The biennial lifetime achievement award went to Seamus Heaney in 2009.<\/p>\n

Receiving the prize at a London ceremony, Barnes, 65, said its value “lies in its list of previous winners”.<\/p>\n

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It is a matter of sober delight to be added to the list of prize winners\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He said that, since the price was introduced in 1993 – when it was won by VS Naipaul – it had “established itself as the greatest honour a British or Irish writer can receive within these islands”.<\/p>\n

“It is also conducted with proper secrecy and dignity,” he said. “So it is a matter of sober delight to be added to the list of prize winners.”<\/p>\n

Chairman of judges Mark Lawson said the “already extraordinary list of David Cohen Prize-winning authors”, which also includes Beryl Bainbridge and Muriel Spark, had been “fittingly extended”.<\/p>\n

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Barnes, who was born in Leicester, formerly worked as a reviewer, literary editor and TV critic for publications including the New Statesmen and The Observer.<\/p>\n

He has been nominated three times for the Booker Prize, for 1984’s Flaubert’s Parrot, 1998’s England, England and 2005’s Arthur & George.<\/p>\n

As the winner of the David Cohen Prize, Barnes has chosen The Reading Agency as the recipient of the \u00a312,500 Clarissa Luard Award.<\/p>\n

The charity will use the money to support reading initiatives for young offenders.<\/p>\n

“It seems to me that the practice of reading is currently more under threat than the practice of writing,” he said. “There will always be young writers – will there always be young readers?”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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