The novelist Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for “The Sense of an Ending,” a slim and meditative story of mortality, frustration and regret.
“The Sense of an Ending,” published in the United States by Knopf, part of Random House, is Mr. Barnes’s 11th novel, a 163-page book that has sometimes been called a novella for its size and simplicity. Mr. Barnes, 65, who lives in London, has been nominated for the Booker three times in the past.
The prize, Britain’s best-known literary award, is given annually to a novel by an author in Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations. The award is accompanied by a check for £50,000, or about $78,000, and comes with an immediate lift in book sales and visibility.
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