![]() ![]() The book was translated into Italian (2006). McGuinness published his first poetry collection, The Canals of Mars, in 2004. The third, sudden as the trap door beneath you, The second, long as the creak of floorboards, According to McGuinness, Roberts "might fairly be claimed to be our greatest female war poet" whose work "constitutes one of the most imaginative poetic responses to modern war and the home front in the English language." Poetry and novels įirst sip: gentle as a stream overreaching, McGuinness has also edited two volumes of the Argentinian-Welsh poet and novelist Lynette Roberts, who was highly appreciated by T. He has edited the works of Marcel Schwob, a French symbolist and short story writer, a friend of Oscar Wilde, and has written on the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. He has also translated Stéphane Mallarmé, a major symbolist poet, and edited an anthology in French of symbolist and decadent poetry. Hulme, an English literary critic and poet who was influenced by Bergson and who, in turn, had a strong influence on English modernism. Among his academic publications there is a study of T. ![]() Patrick McGuinness teaches French and Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. It won the Writers' Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. His first novel, The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011) was centred on the end of the Ceaușescus' regime in Romania, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Writer's Club First Novel Award a French version was published under the title Les Cent Derniers Jours. McGuinness's production is divided between academic literary criticism and fiction, memoir and poetry. He has two children, Osian and Mari McGuinness. ![]() He currently lives in Oxford and in Wales, with his family. He has called for the British monarchy to be abolished. McGuinness is a member of Plaid Cymru and stood as a candidate for the party in Wales in the 2019 European Parliament election. He grew up in Belgium and also lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK. McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian French-speaking mother and an English father of Irish descent. He is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College. Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. British academic, critic, novelist, and poet ![]()
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