 McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011.Zadie Smith's Whitbread Book Award winning novel "White Teeth" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London.Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book "The Sense of an Ending", while three of his earlier books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize