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Julian Barnes to co-curate exhibition of French painter Félix Vallotton

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 | 1:03 PM

The writer, whose latest work is a series of art essays, tells Edinburgh book festival audience he is helping to stage Royal Academy show

Julian Barnes has been nominated for the Man Booker prize four times and won it once; he is an essayist and memoirist par excellence. Now, however, he is trying his hand at yet another discipline: art curating. He is in the early stages of co-organising an exhibition of works by the late 19th-century Swiss painter, Félix Vallotton, for the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London, he told an audience at the Edinburgh international book festival.